Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@g.o>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha-sources: obsolete in a 2.6 world?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:34:01
Message-Id: 20040402233517.GA8882@thebrain.conmicro.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha-sources: obsolete in a 2.6 world? by Aron Griffis
1 On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:09:13AM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote:
2 > Jay Maynard wrote: [Tue Mar 16 2004, 09:16:58PM EST]
3 > > Finally, there's one fix to a multiline literal in an Alpha-specific
4 > > assembler header file, referenced in bug 38354. It appears to have been
5 > > fixed in 2.6.4.
6 > Unfortunately 2.6.4 is broken on alpha due to changes made by the
7 > linux-ia64 team (kernel.org, not Gentoo). 2.6.3 works well, though.
8 > Hopefully 2.6.5 will be fixed up (but I don't think so yet).
9
10 Broken how? I'm running it on a couple of boxes; aside from the fact that
11 aboot 0.9 won't compile against 2.6, it's doing just fine. (I built aboot by
12 installing 2.4 sources long enough to compile against.)
13
14 > > Do we have a feel for how many folks out there are using the full
15 > > grsecurity, or the complete SuperFreeS/WAN, or USAGI? Is it something we
16 > > should push to have included in the Gentoo kernel by default?
17 > Doesn't matter to me. Personally I'd like to see Gentoo/Alpha move to
18 > 2.6.x for 2004.1, but I suppose that would be pushing too quickly.
19 > Maybe it would be possible for 2004.2.
20
21 Well, if we can get aboot fixed, and identify and fix the breakage you
22 mention, then we can get there easily. 2.6 is the specified kernel for
23 2004.1...
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