Anyone working on a Feodore release for X86-64 ?

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:45:15PM -0400, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> 
>  > Given the installer issues with the 2.6 kernel and the fact that
>  > we really haven't tuned the rest of the OS for it, and the fact
>  > that we intend that a stock kernel should run on Fedora Core,
>  > I'd suggest making your first try be to remove the NPTL and
>  > scheduler patches that Dave pointed out as causing trouble and
>  > see if things work that way.
> 
> That way lies a whole world of pain as I discovered when we rebased
> to 2.4.22. We have lots of patches depandant upon nptl being patched
> in already. If you remove that, prepare for an afternoons fun rediffing
> quite a few other patches.

Or just pull the conflicting patches for a first cut.  There are only
a few patches really required for installation, such as the changes to
loopback.

Do it the easiest way first, and then work towards the harder stuff.
:-)

michaelkjohnson

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