[gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels

[gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:06, Kevin wrote:
> I've now tried a stage 3 installation booting the 2.6.1 SMP kernel from a 
> 2004.0 LiveCD (the SMP configs on 2004.1 LiveCDs are all broken---see bug 
> #49382).

Linky for the lazy:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49382

Comment #5 made me pretty upset.  This guy paid money for our CD set and
it doesn't work.  This is definitely a very big black eye for Gentoo as
a whole.  Our installation media is the first experience people will
have with Gentoo.  With that being said, I am going to make sure that I
help out in any way possible to help test the 2004.2 x86 (and amd64)
LiveCD's.  I have 4 different (p3, athlon-mp, xeon, opteron) SMP
machines and can test several configurations with them (scsi, scsi raid,
ide).  I also have a laptop, so I can test PCMCIA.

I'm sending this to let everybody know.  If you need my help, please
ask.  I will gladly help test.  After all, how can I recommend Gentoo to
people if our installation media is b0rked?

Thanks you for listening to my little spiel and have a great day.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

Is your power animal a penguin?

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Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-dev] Major MCE problem with SMP on Gentoo kernels

[John Davis]

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On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 08:59, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:06, Kevin wrote:
> > I've now tried a stage 3 installation booting the 2.6.1 SMP kernel from a 
> > 2004.0 LiveCD (the SMP configs on 2004.1 LiveCDs are all broken---see bug 
> > #49382).
> 
> Linky for the lazy:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49382
> 
> Comment #5 made me pretty upset.  This guy paid money for our CD set and
> it doesn't work.  This is definitely a very big black eye for Gentoo as
> a whole.  Our installation media is the first experience people will
> have with Gentoo.  With that being said, I am going to make sure that I
> help out in any way possible to help test the 2004.2 x86 (and amd64)
> LiveCD's.  I have 4 different (p3, athlon-mp, xeon, opteron) SMP
> machines and can test several configurations with them (scsi, scsi raid,
> ide).  I also have a laptop, so I can test PCMCIA.
> 
> I'm sending this to let everybody know.  If you need my help, please
> ask.  I will gladly help test.  After all, how can I recommend Gentoo to
> people if our installation media is b0rked?
> 
> Thanks you for listening to my little spiel and have a great day.

Chris -
Thank you for your time in advance :) Testing is the most important
thing that we can do, and it shows when we do not get enough test time
in. 

To accomodate the testing that we need, I may readjust the schedule to
give us 1.5 months (if possible) for testing. GRP and stages don't
really need any testing, so they can be built ~2.5 weeks before the
release date. LiveCDs on the other hand, need time to test. If the dates
work out, I will shuffle things around. Expect everything to be
finalized after the Monday manager's meeting.

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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