Nils Juergens wrote: > > fixing it for the i386 architecture I do not know, but I do know that > > modifying the kernel in stable on i386 is a monstrous problem, as doing > > it right means you have to: > > > > - rebuild all the different kernel images > > - rebuild all the modules packages external to the kernel, which would > > get broken by the above rebuild > > - rebuild the boot floppies > > - rebuild the install CD's > > And that is not true for the architectures that _were_ patched? It's certianly less true of ie, s390. There are not a lot of third pary kernel modules for s390, for example, and if there are any, they're not needed during install like the pcmcia modules are. > I also think > that a patched 2.4.20-ptrace as replacement for 2.4.20 would have not much > problems running external modules. Maybe if you got rather lucky and didn't inaverdently change anything else. -- see shy jo
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