Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

[Syed Ahemed]

Point taken Sir , Change to 2.6 is inevitable i believe ....Allthough
i shall give the RHEL patch port to 2.4.28 a try over the weekend :-)
Thanks  a lot Willy and Peter for the help .

On 3/15/07, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 03:14 +0530, Syed Ahemed wrote:
> >
> > > Getting RHEL's source ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/21/380 ) was an
> > > idea i thought about but then a download of the RHEL source from the
> > > following location was denied .
> > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/  and
> > > the rpmfind site.
> > > (Guess need to be a paid subscriber for that right ?)
> >
> > Strangely enough you try to download Fedora Core SRPMs whilst you speak
> > of RHEL. Try this one:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm
> >
> > Also, CentOS would have similar sources. Google could have informed you
> > on that.
> >
> > > I still wonder why there aren't any NPTL patches available in the
> > > non-redhat sites for kernels like 2.4.21 or more .
> >
> > Because most people, especially the ones on this mailing list have moved
> > on to 2.6 quite some time ago. May I suggest you do the same?
>
> ... or they stick to 2.4 for specific uses and do not need NPTL at all, which
> came late in the development cycle.
>
> Regards,
> Willy


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