From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266666AbUH3Eqa (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:46:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266281AbUH3Eqa (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:46:30 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:42455 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266725AbUH3EqP (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:46:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:35:00 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: jmerkey@comcast.net Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, wli@holomorphy.com, roland@topspin.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@drdos.com Subject: Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM) Message-Id: <20040829213500.7f029513.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <083020040401.15279.4132A6990005360E00003BAF2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> References: <083020040401.15279.4132A6990005360E00003BAF2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 04:01:29 +0000 jmerkey@comcast.net wrote: | | | | > On Sul, 2004-08-29 at 17:42, William Lee Irwin III wrote: | | > Ok so I can compile with a.out support. End of problem, that makes the | > patch useful and "spec compliant", although the spec compliance is | > irrelevant anyway. The spec doesn't determine what Linux is it's a | > useful reference for normality. Special cases are special cases and you | > harm the system by seeking to stop stuff that works purely for pieces of | > paper. | > | | Amen. USB 2.0 orinoco wireless drivers seems to have problems when user space | is set to 1GB. Works grat with 2GB ad 3GB user space settings. Problem occurs during | any acces to usb_read_device(). This doesn't look like a ABI problem, looks like | a problem with the USB subsystem. The serialize semaphore gets stuck for some | reason. What kernel version? I can't even find usb_read_device() in 2.6.9-rc1. BTW, as someone else requested, please teach your mail client to wrap lines around column 70-72. Thanks. | On the other topic, ABI compliance sounds a little restrictive since this is after all, an | open source OS. Most apps get recompiled and I always download open source | components for Linux. -- ~Randy