2010/1/11 Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>: > 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 :) +1 (agreed). >> 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 As !(member of the development team) but a kernel person in general and co-maintainer of the CentOS wiki kernel related documentation I say -1 to Timothy's suggestion and, hence, +1 (agreed) to KB's comment. >> ? ? ?* 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. As KB has said, obviously no to the standard, core, CentOS SRPM but quite possibly in the C-Plus kernel. Akemi, do you have any comment on this suggestion? > 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. Hmm. More good points that need careful consideration. So, depending upon interest, this may turn out to be a personal project for Timothy just to run C5 on those few of his systems. Alan.
