Anyone working on a Feodore release for X86-64 ?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 21:33:52 UTC 2003


On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:45:15PM -0400, Michael K. Johnson wrote:

 > Given the installer issues with the 2.6 kernel and the fact that
 > we really haven't tuned the rest of the OS for it, and the fact
 > that we intend that a stock kernel should run on Fedora Core,
 > I'd suggest making your first try be to remove the NPTL and
 > scheduler patches that Dave pointed out as causing trouble and
 > see if things work that way.

That way lies a whole world of pain as I discovered when we rebased
to 2.4.22. We have lots of patches depandant upon nptl being patched
in already. If you remove that, prepare for an afternoons fun rediffing
quite a few other patches.

		Dave

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