Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: Gentoo Sparc Mailing List <gentoo-sparc@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Dueling ebuilds?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:04:17
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.61.0410270901160.10696@stargazer.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Dueling ebuilds? by Paul Heinlein
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4 On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Paul Heinlein wrote:
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6 > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jason Wever wrote:
7 >
8 >> If you're only using 2.4, you can keep using modutils. However if you
9 >> use 2.6, or want to flip back and forth from 2.4 to 2.6, you can use
10 >> module-init-tools (as long as the "no-old-linux" use flag is *NOT*
11 >> enabled (aren't double negatives fun :-P))
12 >
13 > Is there any estimate as to when 2.6 will be marked stable for sparc64?
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15 Well, the problem we run into here is typically the quality of the 2.6
16 kernels isn't that great on sparc64 (though a lot better than sparc32).
17 We've been hesitant to mark any of them stable because while some may work
18 fine on some machines, they don't on others (i.e. 2.6.6 runs fine on a
19 Blade 100 but locks up consistently on an Ultra 2).
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21 So you can try at your own risk if you want, but basically we're trying to
22 avoid bug reports we can't do too much about by marking a 2.6 kernel
23 stable.
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26 Jason Wever
27 Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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Re: [gentoo-sparc] Dueling ebuilds? Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××.com>