Viestissä Maanantai 7. Heinäkuuta 2003 05:53, Glenn Burkhardt kirjoitti: > I've built a stock 2.4.21 kernel, and applied the patch > > SGI XFS snapshot-2.4.21-2003-06-23_01:45_UTC > > and I can run the debugger. There are still a bunch of drivers to get > straight, if I want to use it (which is why I prefer getting a kernel from > Mandrake). > > This is 1.3 release. There is no patch for the 1.2 release for the 2.4.21 > kernel; the only one is for the 2.4.19 kernel. > No it's not... It's a 1.3 pre2 snapshot....
> Which makes me wonder where the code in the current 9.1 releases came from. > They all (including cooker linux-2.4.21-2mdk) have the version: > > snapshot 2.4.20-2003-01-14_00:43_UTC > > The "official" 1.2 release was made 2003/2/11. So was this an early > release of 1.2 or 1.3, and how was the patch made "compatible" with the > 2.4.21 kernel, since it was picked up a month before XFS 1.2 was released, Back in January the above snapshot was stated to become 1.2 Release.... I also verifyed it then when 1.2 got Released, and the code was the same.. > which is, at least now, only available for the 2.4.19 kernel. > You can still find the snapshots for 2.4.20 and a lot of other kernels at: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches If IRC the 2.4.19 XFS 1.2 patches applies cleanly onto 2.4.20, so there is no need to keep duplicates... or maybe SGI knows of this promblem with 2.4.20, and therefore skipped the 1.2 Release for 2.4.20... And with 1.3 around the corner... who cares about the old stuff... ;-) > It would at least be sporting if Mandrake would post a note on the "Errata" > page that 9.1 shouldn't use XFS if the system is to be used for > development. Apparently it's only the root partition that matters. > I'm in the process of reinstalling both 9.1 and Cooker on my system, this time with everything on XFS, so I'll will track down thwe bug if/when it appears for me... > Also, there's no mention of problems with 'gdb' on any of the XFS mailing > lists or change logs, so my guess is that a patch for an older version of > the kernel was force fitted to the 2.4.21 kernel, and this was an edge that > got shaved off. well actually MDK 9.1 does not have a full 2.4.21 kernel (since it was released 2003-06-13), only a 2.4.21pre based + patches from some of the rc's + a lot of MDK addons... One thing is for sure (unless SGI "drags their feets"...) for the upcoming MDK 9.2 there will be a new "shiny" XFS 1.3 added AFAIK... Regards Thomas
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