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Re: kiobuf on linux - sparc ? (URGENT)



Does linux sparc (latest release) have kiobuf support ?
Thanks

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Ben Collins wrote:

> 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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