Anyone working on a Feodore release for X86-64 ?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:52, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> > That can be worked with.  Would the installer be easier to fix, or would 
> > the kernel be easier? 
> 
> Well, "easier" is all in the eye of the beholder.  With a 2.4 kernel,
> the installer is just going to "work".  With a 2.6 kernel, there's going
> to be lots of unexpected crap to track down ;)   Of course, if I was
> going to have to do all of the work, I'd do the anaconda side, but
> that's just because I'm already intimately familiar with the code that's
> there as well as what needs to be done (as well as how I plan to do it
> when I get to needing to do it).
> 
> Another thing to keep in mind is that the 2.4.x kernel doesn't
> necessarily have to have all of the features of the x86 2.4.x kernel. 
> Just start without any of NPTL, O(1), and exec-shield and then look at
> adding them one at a time (I'd say NPTL would be the most bang for the
> buck and then on from there)

O(1) is NPTL requirement, so it needs to be done in O(1), NPTL, exec-shield
(just the randomization stuff, the rest are IA-32 only things) order.

	Jakub