Hi, I am lagging a bit on the -docs maillist backlog, will try and catchup over the next few days. On 01/11/2010 06:17 AM, Timothy Lee wrote: > * http://wiki.centos.org/TimothyLee/centos5_i586_patch > > These instructions have been successfully tested against the > 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 kernel. All comments are welcomed. sounds good :) > I have two questions for the development team: > > * Is this article suitable for publication on the wiki? I'd say no, not here in the user facing wiki > * Can the changes mentioned in that article be incorporated into the > stock SRPM? (As far as I know, non-i586 builds should not be > affected) No, but there is a big open door in the c5plus kernel window. That would be the best place for this. However, expanding a bit ( and this conversation might be better for -devel rather than -docs ). Is the modified kernel the the only bit of change you need for i586 support ? I'd think a glibc.i586 might be worth doing as well. And there were a few other packages that were required to be patched on c4 to make it work for i586. How many of those are needed here as well ? And there are a lot of patches in the kernel tree that might not impact the i586 code at all. eg. whats the state of xen in this i586 kernel ? If there is reasonable interest in running a i586 tree, then imho, a SIG dedicated to this would be the best route to go. It would also make it possible to have a i586 specific tree that can be maintained in parallel to the main core distro. -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
