From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264188AbUEMNTB (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 09:19:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264186AbUEMNTB (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 09:19:01 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:1786 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264183AbUEMNSu (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 09:18:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:18:42 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm2 Message-ID: <20040513131842.GC22202@fs.tum.de> References: <20040513032736.40651f8e.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513114520.A8442@infradead.org> <20040513035134.2e9013ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513121206.A8620@infradead.org> <20040513042540.073478ea.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040513042540.073478ea.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed