Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.10.1-7 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
It would be nice if we could ship a glibc with KSM support, which is very useful for people running virtualization environments. I proposed a patch at: http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00784.html But at: http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00793.html I was told to wait for upstream GNU glibc support, for a routine merge. KSM will be present in the 2.6.32 kernel, which is going to be released soon. It might be nice if Debian could include this patch earlier, since for us eglibc is the default libc, so that as soon as that kernel is out and the kvm/qemu people package a version with KSM support, the compilers will pick up the flag and KSM will work in unstable/squeeze. (qemu/kvm code has an #ifdef which means that they will be compiled without kvm if glibc doesn't have the flag) Thanks, Guido -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6rx00 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on: ii libc-dev-bin 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Development binarie ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii linux-libc-dev 2.6.30-8 Linux support headers for userspac Versions of packages libc6-dev recommends: ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.3-9+nmu1 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.2 [c-compiler] 4.2.4-6 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.4-5 The GNU C compiler Versions of packages libc6-dev suggests: pn glibc-doc <none> (no description available) ii manpages-dev 3.22-1 Manual pages about using GNU/Linux -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
