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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net>
Cc: Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:50:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4057687D.5050902@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403162149.41018.dominik.karall@gmx.net>

Dominik Karall wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 04:36, Steve Youngs wrote:
> 
>>* Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> writes:
>>  > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:24:01 GMT, Adam Jones <adam@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk>  
> 
> said:
> 
>>  >> A quick thought - have you got CONFIG_REGPARM enabled in the kernel
>>  >> config?  If so, disable it and try again.  (It's almost certain to
>>  >> cause crashes with binary modules.)
>>
>>  $ zgrep REGPARM /proc/config.gz
>>CONFIG_REGPARM=y
>>
>>  $ grep nvidia /proc/modules
>>nvidia 2066568 22 - Live 0xe0b2d000
>>
>>  $ uname -r
>>2.6.4-sy1
>>
>>No problems here. :-)
>>
>>  > Also, the NVidia driver uses a bit of kernel stack, so it's
>>  > incompatible with the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option in recent -mm
>>  > kernels...
>>
>>Will have to remember that for 2.6.5, I'll let you know how it goes.
>>Thanks, Valdis.
> 
> 
> can you let me know how to compile the nvidia drivers for 4KSTACK? cause in 
> the 2.6.5-rc1-mm1 is no more option to deactivate 4KSTACK.
> thx!

Complain to NVidia.  It's the binary-only part of the driver that's the 
real stack hog.

--
				Brian Gerst

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-16 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11 15:15 NVIDIA and 2.6.4? Sid Boyce
2004-03-11 19:26 ` Max Valdez
2004-03-12  1:31   ` Sid Boyce
2004-03-12 18:24     ` Adam Jones
2004-03-13  5:15       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-15  3:36         ` Steve Youngs
2004-03-16 20:49           ` Dominik Karall
2004-03-16 20:50             ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2004-03-16 21:19             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-16 21:55               ` Dominik Karall
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-15  1:24 Sid Boyce
2004-03-14  2:23 Sid Boyce
2004-03-14  2:28 ` Sid Boyce
     [not found] <1yxEK-7cw-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-11 13:20 ` Dennis Bliefernicht
2004-03-11 15:05   ` Robert L. Harris
2004-03-11 12:31 Robert L. Harris
2004-03-11 13:07 ` Nerijus Baliunas
2004-03-11 13:23   ` Martin Zwickel
2004-03-13 14:34   ` venom
2004-03-11 14:52 ` Alistair John Strachan

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