[WBEL-devel] WBEL4 RC1 on VIA C3 CPU

[John Morris]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:26, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> The RHEL4 kernel doesn't support i586 ... I don't think that John modified
> the WBEL4-RC1 boot kernel to support i586 either. (I could be wrong).
> 
> If WBEL4 is not going to support i586, you might try CentOS-4, as the boot
> kernel for anaconda is i586 and there is i586 support.

Oh thanks for the reminder!  I had noticed that issue while spinning an
internal test release on Monday and then went off to give a talk about
wireless in libraries and would have forgot it.  Heck, had forgot about
it when replying to a message just a couple of minutes ago.

Boot kernels.  I want WBEL4 to be able to use vendor released driver
discs for RHEL4.  When it builds the boot media it looks for
kernel-BOOT, then i386, i586 and finally will take i686 if it is the
only thing available.  For RHEL4 that is going to be i686 so any driver
discs are going to be built for i686.

So we have a problem.  Looks like it is going to be possible to have
Pentium support OR RHEL4 driver compatibility at install time but not
both.  Or is there some way out of this paradox I'm just not seeing?

> Before anyone complains about CentOS trying to steal WBEL users ... I am
> not.  If WBEL-4 supports i586 and your are a WBEL user, please use WBEL-4
> :).  If not, I just wanted to point out that CentOS-4 might allow you to
> install on that platform.

Actually it might be THE option for i586 support.  Since CentOS does
exist and supports Pentium class hardware it might make more sense for
WBEL to go for driver compatibility.  Migration between rebuilds is
pretty simple so nobody gets orphaned without an upgrade path.

Time for a fast debate folks.  Survivor time, who gets voted off the
island, Epias or Enterprise hardware? The rebuild process is finally at
a stage where I think all packages (on both arches) are going to build
flawlessly on the pass currently running so it is this decision and
installing Oracle to get tora right that are the only remaining holds.

Assuming of course the compile doesn't hit yet another snag.  And of
course I probably should go ahead and roll in the OO.o errata from this
week to avoid THAT hog of a download after every install.

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