On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:13:21AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:53 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:50 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: > > > > A question; Before I open BZ... Is the kernel team (I see Dave Jones is > > > > doin' much; that's why CC:) willing to help AlphaCore and add patches to > > > > kernel spec? > > > > > > > > No, it's nothing for upstream. Just fixes for the spec. Some > > > > if(n)arch's, sections for alpha, a config, ... Nothing that should break > > > > primary archs... > > > > > > We don't like ifarches. Why? > > > > The utrace patch is the biggest concern here, really. Not that it's bad > > code, but its a significant divergence from upstream, and it doesn't > > work on sparc32 (and presumably, alpha). Aurora is %ifarch > > conditionalizing that patch (and one later patch that has to be modified > > slightly for the old ptrace behavior) in our kernels as well. > > Does it apply? Seems there's a config option for it... you could just > leave that disabled in your .configs. Problem is (AIUI) that doing that would remove ptrace functionality completely. With the patch applied, ptrace is implemented as a 'personality' of utrace. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
