Re: 2.6.6-mm2

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

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.

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


cu
Adrian

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