[10:27] <TheMuso> lamont: 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?
[12:01] <lamont> TheMuso: we need a stable kernel
[12:02] <lamont> Apple Xserve vs >= hardy is not stable
[12:10] <TheMuso> hrm ok
[12:44] <lamont> TheMuso: when eglibc regressed on dapper kernels, we took a stab at the karmic kernel... it failed to be stable.
[21:22] <TheMuso> lamont: How is it not stable?
[21:23] <lamont> TheMuso: crashes in filesystem space (mostly OOPSes, iirc), throws random SIGSEGVs, etc.
[21:23] <lamont> Not sure what it is about the Apple Xserves, but they haven't liked anything since hardy... not sure about edgy-gutsy, either
[21:24] <lamont> since we ran dapper until hardy came out, then hardy one place for about a day or two, then punted.
[21:24] <TheMuso> lamont: Hrm ok.
[21:24] <lamont> and we have now confirmed that karmic is in the same boat
[21:24] <TheMuso> Kinda sucks, because I have ppc64 hardware that runs karmic and doesn't miss a beat.
[21:25] <lamont> I got a good 10-12 minutes into simultaneous builds of linux, gcc-4.4, and eglibc before it paniced
[21:25] <TheMuso> ouch
[21:25] <lamont> well, it oopsed shortly before that, then died several seconds later
[21:25] <TheMuso> Hrm ok. We need to get something sorted soon if ppc is to survive the next year or so.
[21:25] <TheMuso> i.e get the kernel sorted.
[21:43] <lamont> ah, come on, it still has 17 months of support... :-p
[21:43] <lamont> but yeah, a working Xserve kernel for lucid would be most lovely