On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> On my Slackware Linux 10.0 system, I would like to upgrade the kernel
> from 2.6.7 to 2.6.10. Are there any issues with CMUCL?
>
> Last October I asked a similar question about the 2.6 series because I
> had heard about some memory map issues. Numerical Methods said that
> memory map changes started at 2.6.9, and that he was running CMUCL
> with 2.6.7 fine except for an intermittent glitch. Martin Cracauer
> confirmed that CMUCL run fine for him with 2.6.7, and that the the
> memory map issues were limited to Fedora Core 2.
>
> I have been successfully using 2.6.7 with CMUCL since last November,
> and I was wondering whether more recent versions of the 2.6 series
> also worked well.
I've been using cmucl on 2.6.9 (FC3) for two months, with no problem. I can't
say anything about 2.6.10, becasue I'd have to reboot to try. But wait: why
not just try and see? You'll keep your old kernel around anyway, don't you?
Andras
