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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:52:45AM -0000, Naresh Donti wrote: |
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> When glic is compiled with --enable-kernels=2.4.0, it enables a feature |
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> called floating stacks to improve performance. Frankly I do not know what |
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> floating stacks are, and would not really have cared, but for the fact that |
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> IBM's jdk did not work on rc5 because it makes some wrong assumptions about |
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> something related to the floating stacks. Sun's jdk1.3.1 is supposed to have |
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> fixed this, but I really want to use IBM's JDK. I think this will be fixed |
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> in the next few releases of the JDK, but in the mean time this does not |
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> allow me to use gentoo as my primary desktop. |
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I just upgraded my system to use a new glibc without --enable-kernels=2.4.0 and |
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Sun's JDK is now working for me instead of segfaulting. I have this glibc in |
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a .tbz2 package; it is compiled for the i686 architecture. If you have a P6 core, |
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let me know and I'll send it to you. |
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I think we should include this kernel with 1.0_rc6, since Java compatibility is |
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important. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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