From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:29:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:63518 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:29:01 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7VFZAgM008235; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:35:10 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7VFZAHk008234; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:35:10 +0100 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:35:10 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Stephen P. Becker" Cc: "'Linux/MIPS Development'" Subject: Re: compiling kernel 2.6.13 Message-ID: <20050831153509.GF3377@linux-mips.org> References: <200508311459.47273.djd20@kent.ac.uk> <20050831150256.GC3377@linux-mips.org> <4315CD1C.80203@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4315CD1C.80203@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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: 8843 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 Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:30:36AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > >Daring. Hardly anybody is using EISA on that machine and even less so on > >64-bit, expect to find bugs. > > Furthermore, 64-bit kernels are somewhat broken on ip22 right now. > Something is wrong with memory allocation, and it really screws a lot of > things up. Off the top of my head, you won't be able to turn on swap, > mount a ricerfs partition, or dd large blocks from /dev/zero. You would > be much better of sticking with 32-bit at this time. But that seems an IP22-specific problem. Ralf