Re: Linux 2.6.4

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 12:01:19 EST


Hi!
> On Thursday 11 March 2004 04:28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > A few small fixes since -rc3, most notably an OHCI bug that would corrupt
> > memory and seems to have been the reason for the "Bad page flags" bug at
> > least on ppc64 (it's not been reported on x86, as far as I know, but I
> > don't see why the corruption couldn't have happened there too).
> >
> > The full changelog from 2.6.3 is on the ftp-sites along with the patches
> > and tar-balls, and the BK trees have been updated.

> Just upgraded from 2.6.2 to 2.6.4. The new -mregparm=3 support, how likely is
> it to totally break one's system? I'm not really in the mood to trash boxes
> today ;p

There were some problems with that, but they should be fixed. If you
are using binary-only drivers, stay away from that.
Pavel

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