On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:57:26 +0000 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:47 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > > My biggest concern is that it doesn't match Fedora, which makes it > > harder for people who _do_ care to actually reproduce the issue and > > debug the problem. Local mock builds on a Fedora PPC system would use > > 4KiB pages and would likely build/test just fine. Reproducibility is > > fairly important IMHO. > > That's a valid concern, I agree. > > > If we have a ppc64 machine running a RHEL kernel for people to log into > > to do mock builds, etc my concerns are lessened slight. > > If we decide to keep the builders on 64KiB pages, then we'll definitely > have matching machines available for Fedora contributors to build/debug > on. > > > But I really think we should be eating our own dog food here. > > Your employer and mine also care about people who use 64KiB pages... :) I don't speak for my employer in any way shape or form. My comments are my own and do not represent those of my employer. <Insert random other ways of saying I speak for me alone and not my employer>. Fedora is done in my spare time. Besides, my employer is probably more concerned with the fact that Fedora 9 Alpha (and likely Beta) doesn't even install on their class of hardware because of Anaconda/HAL refusing to see the disks on Power6 and LPARs (as well as PS3). josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
