Re: 2.6.6-mm2

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 09:18, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:25:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >...
> > Wim explained that any application changes now won't be widely deployed for
> > another year.  During that period the ability to run existing Oracle setups
> > requires that hugepage allocation be available to unprivileged
> > applications.
> >...
> > It means that if people install a kernel.org machine on their database
> > server, the database *just won't work*.  This is not good for those users,
> > for the kernel developers or for Linux's reputation in general.
> >...
> 
> That sounds silly when talking about Oracle.
> 
> Oracle says:
>   Which Kernels are supported?
> 
>   Oracle does not support modified or recompiled kernels. Recompiled 
>   kernels are not supported with or without source modifications.
> 
> 
> I doubt there are many "existing Oracle setups" that will risk to lose 
> all Oracle support by installing a different kernel.
> 
No, I doubt so as well.  Then again, why force them into a vendor
kernel?  At the very least, it would be nice to be able to benchmark
vanilla against the vendors.

> And AFAIK Oracle currently supports not a single distribution that ships
> with kernel 2.6.

Keep in mind that just because oracle isn't certified on a kernel today,
that doesn't make Andrew's statements wrong.

-chris