Linux Birds of Feathers

Rational staff:

Comments heard:

Most problems are with mvfs, and should show up at load time. There are wrappers to most functions which check for assumptions and on failure, typically issue messages such as:

 structure size mismatch - expected ...

In this case, the only solution is to rebuild mvfs.o.

Rational is very aware that their traditional support model doesn't work with Linux. The issue is not so much to make Linux a 1st-tier platform, as to react faster to changes (patches).

They need our (their customers') help to spot the critical patches, and to test valuable configurations. They would value to identify a team of technical people with whom to communicate more tightly. I promised to send them such a list.

As a summary, their message was for now: Call support fast.


RUC 2001 ToC
Linux at MICA
Marc Girod
Last modified: Thu Sep 6 10:25:24 EETDST 2001