Ross "closed the loop", so I'm reopening it. <evil grin>
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Jim Wenzlaff wrote: > I have read about the patch on Developerworks, but it is still somewhat > unclear to me where to start. Can the patch be installed on the Redhat or > SuSE distributions? I would expect the patch to work on either RH or SuSE (or Turbo or Millenux or ...). The distributors will apply kernel patches to optimize or fix specific bugs, but generally should NOT be producing kernels with "affinity" for their own distro. (That would be to fragment Linux; not in anyone's best interest.) Let me be more blunt: I would force the issue. You should expect a generic kernel (with suitable public patches) to run either distro without serious impact. The reason I'm saying all this is because of how I would acquire and apply the timer patch. I would take the generic Linux kernel source, apply all relevant patches (incl timer), re-config and re-build, and re-IPL. I don't want to have to re-do this whole thing twice (or three or four or ... times). To try to answer Ross's question: No, not running it yet, but have downloaded the "timer" and "notimer" variants of the latest OCO drivers so we can run either way. YES, I think we want and need this one.
