Re: official 2.4 debs for sun4cdm (was: Re: kernel 2.4.x on sun4c)
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:35:21AM +0200, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 21:52:17 -0400,
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > Because kernel 2.4.x is not stable on sun4cdm yet. You've noted that
> > already :)
>
> actually, 2.4.19 was behaving quite well on my SS20 (even in SMP mode)
> and LX. i'm running the dual-SS20 as my two-headed desktop, and it works
> better with 2.4 than with 2.2 (there were issues with the mouse that the
> kernel-upgrade solved). and the 2.4.20-pre11 image from rob seems to have
> fixed the last outstanding annoyance (problems with swap on SMP kernels).
> as far as i can tell from my desktop and firewall, 2.4.current on sun4cdm
> is no worse than on i386.
>
> could we please start to reevaluate the '2.4 is bad for sun4cdm' mantra
> and actually give 2.4 a chance?
When you have to answer to a few thousand Linux-sparc users for your
decisions, then you can make that choice.
Answer me this, is the swapon segfault on boot fixed? If not, then I'll
leave 2.4.x out for sparc32 for now. I don't need 20 emails a day to
this list asking "Is this swapon segfault bad?".
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