Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 03:14 +0530, Syed Ahemed wrote:
> 
> > Getting RHEL's source ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/21/380 ) was an
> > idea i thought about but then a download of the RHEL source from the
> > following location was denied .
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/  and
> > the rpmfind site.
> > (Guess need to be a paid subscriber for that right ?)
> 
> Strangely enough you try to download Fedora Core SRPMs whilst you speak
> of RHEL. Try this one:
> 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm
> 
> Also, CentOS would have similar sources. Google could have informed you
> on that.
> 
> > I still wonder why there aren't any NPTL patches available in the
> > non-redhat sites for kernels like 2.4.21 or more .
> 
> Because most people, especially the ones on this mailing list have moved
> on to 2.6 quite some time ago. May I suggest you do the same?

... or they stick to 2.4 for specific uses and do not need NPTL at all, which
came late in the development cycle.

Regards,
Willy