From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 21 Feb 2003 02:46:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B7762.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.119.98]:55743 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 02:46:43 +0000 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1L2kTp19127; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:46:29 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:46:29 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Andrew Clausen Cc: Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: [patch] sys32_sysinfo broken on mips64 and ia64 Message-ID: <20030221034629.A18782@linux-mips.org> References: <20030220002655.GE915@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030220002655.GE915@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com>; from clausen@melbourne.sgi.com on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:26:55AM +1100 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1503 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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