AMD 64 support
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 14:02:49 UTC 2003
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:48:27AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> We need to have some time ourselves to volunteer to do some of
> the things that need to be done. The most major thing for each
> architecture without question, is the kernel. The kernel needs
> work done for every architecture, and that is a LOT of hard work
> that needs experienced knowledgeable kernel guru hands on it.
> Right now Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> I hear is hacking on the
> AMD64 kernel for Fedora Core 1. I don't know if any other kernel
> folk are working with Dave on that or if he's doing it himself.
RHEL AMD64 guru Jim Paradis has lent a hand, and most of the
nptl fixes in the current Fedora kernel are based on the work
he did for RHEL. Thanks Jim 8-)
> Wrong. Rawhide has the latest of everything. We're not holding
> back or hiding *ANYTHING*. Fedora Core and rawhide contain the
> absolute latest support for anything and everything we have to
> offer.
Except when the packages are really experimental, when they
end up on our people pages instead. (http://people.redhat.com/davej/amd64
for example)
> This wont happen overnight, and neither will an AMD64 port of
> Fedora, nor an Alpha port - both of which I'm interested in.
Indeed. Whilst amd64 kernel is proceeding, it's a spare time
project, which has to compete with other spare time projects
which all compete for 'spare' time. Yesterday I spent the day
chasing RAID problems so no work at all got done on amd64 for eg.
It'll all happen, it just takes time.
Dave
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