Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:28:29AM +0800, Isaac To wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>
> Daniel> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > And
> >> Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to
> >> add > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this
> >> discussion doesn't > belong on the ITP bug.
> >>
> >> And why is it only for 2.6 kernels? The processor specific package
> >> should support NPTL, and it doesn't require 2.6...
>
> Daniel> That sentence is contradictory - NPTL requires 2.6.
>
> Unless one patch the kernel to support all the things like .<pid> files in
> /proc, futex, O(1) scheduler, ... (i.e., as in the "2.4" kernel of Redhat).
Certainly. I've got no intention of supporting that in the debian
glibc packages, however.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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