Re: 2.6.6-mm2

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

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:39:32AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> 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.
>...

I think I recall times when code contributions to the kernel were only 
judged by their quality and not by the needs of some non-free apps or 
what vendors did.

Either my memory is wrong, or these times are gone now...

> -chris

cu
Adrian

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