Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?

[Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>]

Dominik Karall wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 04:36, Steve Youngs wrote:
> 
>>* Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> writes:
>>  > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:24:01 GMT, Adam Jones <adam@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk>  
> 
> said:
> 
>>  >> A quick thought - have you got CONFIG_REGPARM enabled in the kernel
>>  >> config?  If so, disable it and try again.  (It's almost certain to
>>  >> cause crashes with binary modules.)
>>
>>  $ zgrep REGPARM /proc/config.gz
>>CONFIG_REGPARM=y
>>
>>  $ grep nvidia /proc/modules
>>nvidia 2066568 22 - Live 0xe0b2d000
>>
>>  $ uname -r
>>2.6.4-sy1
>>
>>No problems here. :-)
>>
>>  > Also, the NVidia driver uses a bit of kernel stack, so it's
>>  > incompatible with the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option in recent -mm
>>  > kernels...
>>
>>Will have to remember that for 2.6.5, I'll let you know how it goes.
>>Thanks, Valdis.
> 
> 
> can you let me know how to compile the nvidia drivers for 4KSTACK? cause in 
> the 2.6.5-rc1-mm1 is no more option to deactivate 4KSTACK.
> thx!

Complain to NVidia.  It's the binary-only part of the driver that's the 
real stack hog.

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				Brian Gerst