On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > These files are very similar. It looks as if one were written
> > from the other. Both of these files define a routine called uvirt_to_kva
> > that attempts to do some arithmetic on the result of pte_page(),
>
> Yes I saw this. The bttv code needs the main memory subsystem to support
> a kmalloc/getfreepage below 4Gig. The rest of it looks fairly easy to fix.
There are more bugs, like in mm/swapfile.c:unuse_pte(), where a page
struct ptr is used as an argument to MAP_NR. :(
I tried to update the m68k kernel to 2.3.23 during the weekend and gave up
because of the mess. Why the hell has pte_page() a different meaning now,
but still the same name (without a single comment)?
I'm wondering how that works at all... :(
bye, Roman
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