Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:55:00 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: MTRR breaking module joystick.o ? |
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Vojtech Pavlik writes: > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 05:12:22PM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Well, I doubt that the MTRR code is to blame, since it's pretty > > self-contained. More likely it changes the kernel footprint slightly > > and in the joystick driver there is a bug that is triggered by the > > change. > > Quite unlikely - the major is registered quite soon in the init_module > function, so, there would need to be a major memory-overwriting bug > in the timer calibrating routine, which I doubt.
The MTRR setup code happens very early in the boot process, so it has the potential to affect anything that comes after it.
Regards,
Richard....
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