Re: CVS commit: syssrc

[cgd%sibyte.com@localhost (Chris G. Demetriou)]

Havard.Eidnes%runit.sintef.no@localhost writes:
> That PR doesn't seem to point out that this particular change is
> to blame.  If a page is going to be used as a page table page, it
> better not matter to the stability of the rest of the system if
> it is zeroed before being taken into use.

right.  8-)

I'm actually going to try and recompile/rebuild with 1.4.2 and
1.4.x-current kernels, to see if they still work.


> My guess is even that these are probably unrelated to the hangs
> or resets folks have experienced related to (?) the PCIBIOS code.

So, FYI, as I think i mentioned, i was previously able to run a
-current kernel with PCIBIOS et al enabled.  so If there is really a
problem in that code on my laptop, it's relatively new.



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