Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-mm2 | From | Chris Mason <> | Date | Thu, 13 May 2004 09:39:32 -0400 |
| |
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 09:18, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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. > No, I doubt so as well. Then again, why force them into a vendor kernel? At the very least, it would be nice to be able to benchmark vanilla against the vendors.
> And AFAIK Oracle currently supports not a single distribution that ships > with kernel 2.6.
Keep in mind that just because oracle isn't certified on a kernel today, that doesn't make Andrew's statements wrong.
-chris
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |