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Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: time to branch 10.3 kernel tree?
- From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:18:33 +0200
- Message-id: <20071013231833.GB7506@xxxxxxx>
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:59:46PM +0200, Ruediger Oertel wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> > >We tried with 10.3 but many user complained why their 1GB
> > >machine got a bigsmp kernel.
> >
> >
> >
> > >And therefore my suggestion to change it,
> >
> > So the name change is because they complained they got a bigsmp?
> > (That's how I read it.)
> > I'd say they complained because they got a bigsmp/pae in the first
> > place (but you may prove me wrong with a BZ entry).
>
> well, the question is did people complain because of the name "bigsmp"
> or have there been real "functional" problems ?
> - drivers not available for bigsmp/pae
Was fixed.
> - software not working with it (AFAIR vmware has been fixed)
> - functionality not working: suspend as most important feature
We did not start before we had confirmation that STR and STD works.
> Note, I'm not saying any of these don't work, I'm rather asking
> if they all do ?
That was what we both confirmend and also tried to test during Beta Test.
Ciao, Marcus
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> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> > >We tried with 10.3 but many user complained why their 1GB
> > >machine got a bigsmp kernel.
> >
> >
> >
> > >And therefore my suggestion to change it,
> >
> > So the name change is because they complained they got a bigsmp?
> > (That's how I read it.)
> > I'd say they complained because they got a bigsmp/pae in the first
> > place (but you may prove me wrong with a BZ entry).
>
> well, the question is did people complain because of the name "bigsmp"
> or have there been real "functional" problems ?
> - drivers not available for bigsmp/pae
Was fixed.
> - software not working with it (AFAIR vmware has been fixed)
> - functionality not working: suspend as most important feature
We did not start before we had confirmation that STR and STD works.
> Note, I'm not saying any of these don't work, I'm rather asking
> if they all do ?
That was what we both confirmend and also tried to test during Beta Test.
Ciao, Marcus
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