From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Andrew Clausen <clausen@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] sys32_sysinfo broken on mips64 and ia64
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:46:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030221034629.A18782@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030220002655.GE915@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com>; from clausen@melbourne.sgi.com on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:26:55AM +1100
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:26:55AM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> The sys32_sysinfo() calls are currently using an old version of
> "struct sysinfo32", in both the mips64 and ia64 ports.
>
> busybox's init can't cope with the bogus output on my Origin 200,
> so this bug prevents the Debian installer from bootstrapping.
>
> This is the mips64 version of the patch. A very similar patch
> could be constructed for ia64... it's very obvious what to do,
> so I'll leave it to you ia64 people :)
Sigh... Each time I curse some certain person for copying code from the
ia64 compat code, it was of abysimal quality back in at that time -
unlike the Sparc code.
Will apply ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 0:26 [patch] sys32_sysinfo broken on mips64 and ia64 Andrew Clausen
2003-02-21 2:46 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2003-02-21 18:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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