Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

Horst von Brand
2005-09-04T22:03:07Z

Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes you are. You're asking for 4KSTACKS config option to maintained
> > and it is not something you get for free. Besides, if it is indeed
> > ripped out of mainline kernel, you can always keep it a separate patch
> > for ndiswrapper.

> Though 4K stacks are used a lot, they probably aren't used on all
> configurations yet. Other situations may arise where 8K stacks may be
> preferred. It is too early to kill 8K stacks imho.

At least Fedora ships 4Kstacks kernel for quite a while now. No, it is not
"everywhere", but close.
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