Alle Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:41, Don Geddis ha scritto:
I understand the conflict, that it appears the kernel guys did make an unintentional error. Nevertheless, I find the phrase "non-standard kernel" to be suspect. If a user tries to install the default linux-2.6 kernel in Debian ("testing"), this is the "standard" kernel that they get.
I was unclear. I meant 'unmodified kernel from kernel.org with default options'. We had a similar problem a few years back when redhat decided to go for a 2/2 G split in memory. The cmucl maintainers ignored bugreports about this and redhat reversed the patch in the end.
This bug doesn't appear to bother most applications. Moreover, the kernel guys (while admitting an error) seem to claim that this kind of change is permitted by their API contract.
Finally, Carl Shapiro suggests that CMUCL's current memory layout is an odd accident, and he has a simple patch to reorder the memory (on all
Could you point me to that contract so I can check other assumptions made. As someone who got bitten numerous times by glibc's changing semantics I would appreciate such a document and to my knowledge it does not exist. platforms?)
which happens to solve this problem and also make CMUCL compatible with Debian kernel 2.6.16.
I can see what the solution would be but there are technical and cultural problems with it, basicly the debian package would be 'different' from a normal cmucl and this is often enough reason to distrust bug reports from debian users.
I'm open to suggestions on what I should 'require'. ;-)
Well, hopefull this is only a short-term issue. I don't really know the Debian package syntax, but can't you can something like "requires linux-image-2.4, or linux-image-2.6 with version <= 2.6.15"?
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