Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 May 2004 15:18:42 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-mm2 |
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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:25:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Wim explained that any application changes now won't be widely deployed for > another year. During that period the ability to run existing Oracle setups > requires that hugepage allocation be available to unprivileged > applications. >... > It means that if people install a kernel.org machine on their database > server, the database *just won't work*. This is not good for those users, > for the kernel developers or for Linux's reputation in general. >...
That sounds silly when talking about Oracle.
Oracle says: Which Kernels are supported?
Oracle does not support modified or recompiled kernels. Recompiled kernels are not supported with or without source modifications.
I doubt there are many "existing Oracle setups" that will risk to lose all Oracle support by installing a different kernel.
And AFAIK Oracle currently supports not a single distribution that ships with kernel 2.6.
cu Adrian
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