Just FYI.. I installed SuSE 9.1 Professional today, and kdb is in fact part of the kernel. It's not turned on in the installed binaries, but no patch is required...
Thanks for all the help along the way guys! -Charlie Dunn Empirix Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Keith Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:07 PM To: Dunn, Charles Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does SuSE 9.1 Pro have kdb built in?? On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:25:49 -0400, "Dunn, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Earlier this month, Keith Owens said: > >> Ask Redhat (about their patch for kdb). I do patches against=20 >> the standard kernels. Distributors >> add their own patches, some of which conflict with kdb, so it is up to >> the distributors to add kdb to their tree. RedHat does not appear to >be >> interested, SuSE SLES9 has built in kdb. > >We did ask RedHat, and the answers to this and other questions were bad >enough that they failed our qualification.. We are moving on to SuSE.. >Does anyone on the list know if kdb is built into (or available as a >patch) SuSE 9.1 Professional? I tried customer support (talked to a very >helpful, pleasant gentleman) but he didn't know about kdb support in 9.1 >Pro...=20 The kdb v4.3 patch is definitely included in SLES9 (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server), not to be confused with SuSE 9.1. SLES9 is the one that SuSE target at big systems; SUSE 9.1 is the personal, home and small business version. I do not have a copy of SuSE 9.1 Professional, but assuming that it uses one of these kernels <suse_mirror>/pub/linux/suse/suse/i386/9.1/suse/src/kernel-source-2.6.4- 52.src.rpm <suse_mirror>/pub/linux/suse/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/src/kernel-source- 2.6.5-7.108.src.rpm then yes, it contains kdb v4.3. AFAIK kdb is not turned on by default, so you have to rebuild the kernel yourself, but at least the patch is already integrated. I will see about getting SuSE 9.1 updated to kdb v4.4. --------------------------- Use http://oss.sgi.com/ecartis to modify your settings or to unsubscribe.
