On Wednesday 14 May 2008 10:18:11 am Jay Lan wrote: > dwight at supercomputer.org wrote: > > For those of you who follow Fedora, you'll know that F9 came out > > a couple of hours ago. I've put a first pass of a port of kdb to > > F9 up for general availability, and have announced this to the > > general Fedora list. Since this might also be of interest here, > > I'm reposting the announcement below. > > > > It's been years since kdb was available for a Fedora kernel. > > That situation has now been corrected. > > Thanks! > > Hmm, any plan to provide ia64 port as well? ;) > > Cheers, > - jay
You are most welcome; I'm glad to hear people are finding it useful. I've create a "News" file under the kdb directory to post the latest information. In short, it seems to work fine so far with i386 and x86_64 F9. There was one bit of functionality that I had to #ifdef out in order to get it running in time for the F9 release. But I'm going to fix that, as well as cut over to the latest 2.6.25 kernel.org patches, since I now have the final official F9 kernel source. It's a tad painful, but hopefully once it's done it will be easier to maintain. I might even throw in a kdb.spec file in order to generate a kdb RPM. Even better would be the mods to the kernel.spec file to generate a kdb kernel via an `rpmbuild --with kdb" arg. But I've done that before and it's not as quickly achieved. Regarding the Itanium, alas, even though I've worked on ia64 a couple of times, I don't have any ia64 boxes at the moment. :) Which is fortunate, as the ia64 kdb support would probably be a fair bit of work. As I'm sure anyone from SGI would know. :) -dwight- --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
