Re: Linux 2.4.34-pre1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:48:14AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> Hi Willy,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:36:33PM +0000, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Also, I've been asked by several people to consider merging Mikael
> > Pettersson's gcc4 patches :
> > 
> >    http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.4/
> > 
> > I've been reluctant at first for the usual reasons : "who has a 2.4
> > distro with gcc4 ?" ...
> 
> We're about to migrate Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl) from its current gcc
> 3.4.5 (which we used in our 2.0 release) to gcc 4+ - and we'd rather
> _not_ migrate to Linux 2.6 at the same time, if we can.  We'd be more
> comfortable migrating to Linux 2.6 a few months later.
>...

Considering that it's really easy to compile the kernel with a different 
compiler than the userland, do you _really_ want to use such a 
relatively untested kernel/gcc combination for a server platform?

cu
Adrian

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