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Re: kiobuf on linux - sparc ? (URGENT)



On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 09:51:45PM -0500, Fabrice Tchakountio wrote:
> All -
> 
> Please, does someone know if the latest release of linux debian for SPARC
> machines, supports the kiobuf mechanism ?
> 
> We have recently made some linux kernel modifications but for i386
> architectures ( linux 2.4.2 of Redhat 7.1) using kiobuf. We would like to
> port our work to a SPARC machine using the debian package. How difficult 
> could it be ? in orther words, how different the implementations of linux
> 2.4.x kernel of redhat 7.1 and the latest debian release for SPARC  are ?

The kernel's are that much different (well, maybe there are some extra
patches that RedHat adds). I think your main issue is i386 vs. sparc,
rather than RedHat vs. Debian.

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