-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 October 2003 02:34 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I have a patch that fixes SSE problems on 2.4 kernels. However, on 2.6 > kernels it breaks OpenGL (applications segfault). Shouldn't this be fixed in the kernel, then? What exactly does it actually fix? > > Currently I'm applying this patch if /usr/src/linux is linked to a 2.4 > kernel at compile-time. > > This means that if a user emerges xfree when linked to a 2.4 kernel, > that user will need to remerge xfree after moving to 2.6 kernels. This > takes about 40 minutes on a ~2GHz x86. However, if this patch is not x86 is not specific enough to give 2GHz any meaning. A 2GHz AthlonXP is alot faster than an (early) 2GHz Pentium 4. > applied, the bug will continue to exist for all Gentoo users on 2.4 > kernels. > > My request to you is: > 1) Is this acceptable? 40 minutes on any kind of 2GHz system would probably mean at least 2 hours for me... I'd recommend at least having a local USE flag or variable to enable/ disable it (default depending on how major the fix is) > 2) If not, what is a better solution? Dropping the patch entirely? Note > that I don't know Mesa/programming well enough to write a patch > compatible for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. If a version compatible with both kernels could exist, perhaps asking in some related IRC channels could find someone interested in writing such? > > Thanks, > Donnie - -- Luke-Jr Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
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