From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Pierre Beck <mail@pierre-beck.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:53:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506A10E4.80905@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121001215202.GB19126@liondog.tnic>
On 10/01/2012 02:52 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:10:47PM +0200, Pierre Beck wrote:
>> But what about other folks who upgrade their PC? They won't know what
>> hit them when their new PC crawls because disk is trashed.
>
> I don't know, maybe backup their data, install a nice 64-bit Linux
> distro of their liking along with a 64-bit kernel which is several
> magnitudes more tested than its 32-bit counterpart, copy their data back
> and forget 32-bit ever existed...
>
It is very sad, though, that there are still drivers which don't work
correctly in compat mode. Please report bugs on those -- that is just
not acceptable.
Unfortunately few distros provide 64-bit kernels for their 32-bit
distros, which acerbates the problem.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-01 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-30 9:38 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits Pierre Beck
2012-09-30 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-01 21:10 ` Pierre Beck
2012-10-01 21:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-01 21:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-10-01 21:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-01 22:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
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