Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@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 15:15:04
Message-Id: 20040402150913.GB15745@time.flatmonk.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alpha] alpha-sources: obsolete in a 2.6 world? by Jay Maynard
1 Jay Maynard wrote: [Tue Mar 16 2004, 09:16:58PM EST]
2 > Finally, there's one fix to a multiline literal in an Alpha-specific
3 > assembler header file, referenced in bug 38354. It appears to have been
4 > fixed in 2.6.4.
5
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 > I'd like to see the gentoo-sources kernel become the default for Alpha, but
11 > I also don't want to disenfranchise anyone who's using the features the
12 > alpha-sources 2.4.21 kernel has. The sysctl_uac patch can now be applied
13 > only during a build for Alpha, via a feature added to the kernel-2 eclass.
14 > The others aren't Alpha specific, so they can either be included or left out
15 > independdently of the architecture being installed.
16
17 Cool :-)
18
19 > Do we have a feel for how many folks out there are using the full
20 > grsecurity, or the complete SuperFreeS/WAN, or USAGI? Is it something we
21 > should push to have included in the Gentoo kernel by default?
22
23 Doesn't matter to me. Personally I'd like to see Gentoo/Alpha move to
24 2.6.x for 2004.1, but I suppose that would be pushing too quickly.
25 Maybe it would be possible for 2004.2.
26
27 Regards,
28 Aron
29
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31 Aron Griffis
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha-sources: obsolete in a 2.6 world? Marc Giger <gigerstyle@×××.ch>
Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha-sources: obsolete in a 2.6 world? Jay Maynard <jmaynard@g.o>