2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS

2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS

[Peter Hicks]

All,

Just a quickie - the NVidia driver kills my machine when running 2.6.6-rc3 
with CONFIG_4KSTACKS turned on.

My fault for choosing the card.  Any chance of a warning in the help text for 
that option?


Peter.

Re: 2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

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On Sunday 02 May 2004 14:56, Peter Hicks wrote:

Hi Peter,

> Just a quickie - the NVidia driver kills my machine when running 2.6.6-rc3
> with CONFIG_4KSTACKS turned on.
>
> My fault for choosing the card.  Any chance of a warning in the help text
> for that option?

ack.

ciao, Marc

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# 2.6.4-WOLK2.1

--- old/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-04-11 12:39:26.000000000 +0200
+++ new/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-04-11 12:40:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -1504,6 +1504,8 @@ config 4KSTACKS
 	  on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
 	  will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
 
+	  Do NOT select this if you intend to use NVIDIA binary only modules!
+
 config SCHEDSTATS
 	bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
 	depends on PROC_FS

Re: 2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>:

> My fault for choosing the card.  Any chance of a warning in the help text 
> for that option?

There already IS a warning!

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Re: 2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS

[Peter Hicks]

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

>>My fault for choosing the card.  Any chance of a warning in the help text 
>>for that option?
> 
> There already IS a warning!

In the patch on kernel.org for 2.6.6-rc3?  Is it in the help text?  I can't 
see anything in the "make menuconfig" help text that warns of breakage :\


Peter.

Re: 2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>:

> In the patch on kernel.org for 2.6.6-rc3?  Is it in the help text? 

It used to be.

> I can't see anything in the "make menuconfig" help text that warns of
> breakage :\

Interesting. I can't see it now. When it was first introduced in the
mm kernels, it had something like "Note: this may break binary drivers".

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