Re: alpha-sources: obsolete in a 2.6 world?

Jay Maynard wrote:	[Tue Mar 16 2004, 09:16:58PM EST]
> Finally, there's one fix to a multiline literal in an Alpha-specific
> assembler header file, referenced in bug 38354. It appears to have been
> fixed in 2.6.4.

Unfortunately 2.6.4 is broken on alpha due to changes made by the
linux-ia64 team (kernel.org, not Gentoo).  2.6.3 works well, though.
Hopefully 2.6.5 will be fixed up (but I don't think so yet).

> I'd like to see the gentoo-sources kernel become the default for Alpha, but
> I also don't want to disenfranchise anyone who's using the features the
> alpha-sources 2.4.21 kernel has. The sysctl_uac patch can now be applied
> only during a build for Alpha, via a feature added to the kernel-2 eclass.
> The others aren't Alpha specific, so they can either be included or left out
> independdently of the architecture being installed.

Cool :-)

> Do we have a feel for how many folks out there are using the full
> grsecurity, or the complete SuperFreeS/WAN, or USAGI? Is it something we
> should push to have included in the Gentoo kernel by default?

Doesn't matter to me.  Personally I'd like to see Gentoo/Alpha move to
2.6.x for 2004.1, but I suppose that would be pushing too quickly.
Maybe it would be possible for 2004.2.

Regards,
Aron

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