On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 23:05, Luke-Jr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 20 October 2003 02:34 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I have a patch that fixes SSE problems on 2.4 kernels. However, on 2.6 > > kernels it breaks OpenGL (applications segfault). > Shouldn't this be fixed in the kernel, then? What exactly does it actually > fix? > > > > Currently I'm applying this patch if /usr/src/linux is linked to a 2.4 > > kernel at compile-time. > > > > This means that if a user emerges xfree when linked to a 2.4 kernel, > > that user will need to remerge xfree after moving to 2.6 kernels. This > > takes about 40 minutes on a ‾2GHz x86. However, if this patch is not > x86 is not specific enough to give 2GHz any meaning. A 2GHz AthlonXP is alot > faster than an (early) 2GHz Pentium 4. > > applied, the bug will continue to exist for all Gentoo users on 2.4 > > kernels. > > > > My request to you is: > > 1) Is this acceptable? > 40 minutes on any kind of 2GHz system would probably mean at least 2 hours for > me... I'd recommend at least having a local USE flag or variable to enable/ > disable it (default depending on how major the fix is)
A USE flag to disable fixing a bug? 'USE="keep-sse-bugs" emerge xfree' seems a little odd to me. > > 2) If not, what is a better solution? Dropping the patch entirely? Note > > that I don't know Mesa/programming well enough to write a patch > > compatible for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. > If a version compatible with both kernels could exist, perhaps asking in some > related IRC channels could find someone interested in writing such? I already tried. Response consisted of things similar to "Wait until 2.6 is official, then we will provide a fix for it. Right now we have more important, relevant things to concentrate on." Thanks, Donnie
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