Re: Linux 2.4.34-pre1

[Posted August 21, 2006 by corbet]

From:		Solar Designer <solar-AT-openwall.com>
To:		Willy Tarreau <wtarreau-AT-hera.kernel.org>
Subject:		Re: Linux 2.4.34-pre1
Date:		Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:48:14 +0400
Cc:		linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, mtosatti-AT-redhat.com, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe-AT-it.uu.se>

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.

So your intent to add gcc 4+ support into Linux 2.4 is very welcome!

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