Re: glibc2.1 and potato

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:

> Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > > > On 13 May 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:
> 
> > > > > Yeah, glibc should work fine on sparc32 machines with a recent kernel,
> > > > > there is a patched 2.2.7 kernel and a 2.2.8 kernel at:
> > > > >
> > > > >    http://www.cse.msu.edu/debian/kernel
> > Herbert, I see that you are the maintainer for the kernel packages.  I
> > was wondering when you were going to upload the 2.2.8 kernel.  This is
> > desperately needed for the sparc, and I didn't want to upload the
> > sparc specific stuff before you uploaded the source package.
> 
> So, just to clarify, is it the case that we need a patched 2.2.7 and
> 2.2.8, and this is for sparc32 using potato glibc and the new kernels?
> 
> Does 2.2.9 not need this patch?

2.2.8 doesn't need the patch either, but it has other, very bad
problems on all platforms.


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu