But, here the customer did run the configure code (he said he did not
change anything). Isn't this where the machine should be diagnosed and
the right options chosen? Need a way to say it is a cross build, but
that shouldn't be too hard.
My $.02 worth.
George
"James A. Sutherland" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> said:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Your way out in the weeds. What started this thread was a customer who
> > > ended up loading the wrong arch on a system and hanging. I have to
> > > post a kernel RPM for our release, and it's onerous to make customers
> > > recompile kernels all the time and be guinea pigs for arch ports.
> >
> > I'd prefer to be a guinea pig for one of 3 or 4 generic kernels distributed
> > in binary than of one of the hundreds of possibilities of patching a kernel
> > together at boot, plus the (presumamby rather complex and fragile)
> > machinery to do so *before* the kernel is booted, thank you very much.
>
> Hmm... some mechanism for selecting the appropriate *module* might be nice,
> after boot...
>
> > Plus I'm getting pissed off by how long a boot takes as it stands today...
>
> Yep: slowing down boottimes is not an attractive idea.
>
> > > They just want it to boot, and run with the same level of ease of use
> > > and stability they get with NT and NetWare and other stuff they are used
> > > to. This is an easy choice from where I'm sitting.
> >
> > Easy: i386. Or i486 (I very much doubt your customers run on less, and this
> > should be geneic enough).
>
> I think there are better options. Jeff could, for example, *optimise* for
> Pentium II/III, without using PII specific instructions, in the main kernel,
> then have multiple target binaries for modules.
>
> James.
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