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TheMusolamont: I noticed that davis is back on dapper. what needs to happen for lucid so we can get the ppc boxes running a recent LTS?10:27
lamontTheMuso: we need a stable kernel12:01
lamontApple Xserve vs >= hardy is not stable12:02
TheMusohrm ok12:10
lamontTheMuso: when eglibc regressed on dapper kernels, we took a stab at the karmic kernel... it failed to be stable.12:44
TheMusolamont: How is it not stable?21:22
lamontTheMuso: crashes in filesystem space (mostly OOPSes, iirc), throws random SIGSEGVs, etc.21:23
lamontNot sure what it is about the Apple Xserves, but they haven't liked anything since hardy... not sure about edgy-gutsy, either21:23
lamontsince we ran dapper until hardy came out, then hardy one place for about a day or two, then punted.21:24
TheMusolamont: Hrm ok.21:24
lamontand we have now confirmed that karmic is in the same boat21:24
TheMusoKinda sucks, because I have ppc64 hardware that runs karmic and doesn't miss a beat.21:24
lamontI got a good 10-12 minutes into simultaneous builds of linux, gcc-4.4, and eglibc before it paniced21:25
TheMusoouch21:25
lamontwell, it oopsed shortly before that, then died several seconds later21:25
TheMusoHrm ok. We need to get something sorted soon if ppc is to survive the next year or so.21:25
TheMusoi.e get the kernel sorted.21:25
lamontah, come on, it still has 17 months of support... :-p21:43
lamontbut yeah, a working Xserve kernel for lucid would be most lovely21:43

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