[Linux-cluster] GFS-6.0.2.20-2 - no athlon?

Troy Dawson dawson at fnal.gov
Mon Jun 6 20:46:22 UTC 2005


OK, sounds good.
And by x86, you mean i386, i686 ... correct?

Thanks
Troy

Chris Feist wrote:
> Unfortunately the only supported architectures are x86, x86_64, ia32e & 
> ia64 for GFS 6.  We recommend using either the x86 rpms or x86_64 rpms 
> on an athlon.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> For the new GFS 6.0.2.20-2, that came out for the new update 5 kernel 
>> (2.4.21-32.0.1), there isn't an athlon module.
>> Looking at the spec file from the source rpm, I cannot even make an 
>> athlon kernel module without modifying the spec file.  This is because 
>> of the line
>>
>> ExclusiveArch: i386 i686 ia64 x86_64 ia32e
>>
>> which doesn't include athlon.
>>
>> But the question is why is it not there in the first place?
>> Was this just an oversight?
>> Is there a reason that I shouldn't use this on an athlon?
>>
>> If this was just a slipup, well then that's ok.  But if there is a 
>> reason I shouldn't use GFS on an athlon, I'd like to know.
>>
>> Many Thanks
>> Troy Dawson
> 
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