RFC: Page size on PPC/PPC64 builders

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:23:38 -0500
Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:47 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > If we have a ppc64 machine running a RHEL kernel for people to log into
> > to do mock builds, etc my concerns are lessened slight.  But I really
> > think we should be eating our own dog food here.
> 
> But how often do you refill the food bowl?  Should we yum up the
> builders every single day so that the host OS matches what's in rawhide?

You're taking this to the absurd.  I'm talking about page size only.

> What about the older Fedoras?  Should we have builders set aside for
> them that match the kernels in those trees?

IIRC, only the first few FC6 ppc64 kernels had 64KiB pages.  And since
FC6 is EOL, we don't care.  We don't really have a problem unless a
future version of Fedora switches base page size.  I don't see that
happening soon.

josh