From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6204 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Oct 2003 03:20:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 30538 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2003 03:20:35 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:20:34 +0000 From: Brandon Hale To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031020032034.GA29403@emu.gentoo.org> References: <1066617251.991.5.camel@sfa237013.richmond.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1066617251.991.5.camel@sfa237013.richmond.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Patches and the 2.4->2.6 move X-Archives-Salt: 9fe149df-853f-4089-a598-6a0067f551cc X-Archives-Hash: a10210b97b3b68599a1d4fadd39ba9b7 > I have a patch that fixes SSE problems on 2.4 kernels. However, on 2.6 > kernels it breaks OpenGL (applications segfault). > > Currently I'm applying this patch if /usr/src/linux is linked to a 2.4 > kernel at compile-time. > > This means that if a user emerges xfree when linked to a 2.4 kernel, > that user will need to remerge xfree after moving to 2.6 kernels. This > takes about 40 minutes on a ~2GHz x86. However, if this patch is not > applied, the bug will continue to exist for all Gentoo users on 2.4 > kernels. It appears that the larger part of our user base is running a 2.4 series kernel, and will be for quite some time. Considering this, and our position that testing kernels are not offically supported, I think we should give priority to fixing bugs that affect the most users. > My request to you is: > 1) Is this acceptable? I find this acceptable under the condition that it is properly documented in both postinst and ChangeLog. > 2) If not, what is a better solution? Dropping the patch entirely? Note > that I don't know Mesa/programming well enough to write a patch > compatible for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. The one caveat I can think of is GRP. Will we distribute a package for both kernels? How does portage choose the right one? > Thanks, > Donnie --tseng -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list