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SubjectRe: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?
Dominik Karall wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 04:36, Steve Youngs wrote:
>
>>* Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> writes:
>> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:24:01 GMT, Adam Jones <adam@yggdrasl.demon.co.uk>
>
> said:
>
>> >> A quick thought - have you got CONFIG_REGPARM enabled in the kernel
>> >> config? If so, disable it and try again. (It's almost certain to
>> >> cause crashes with binary modules.)
>>
>> $ zgrep REGPARM /proc/config.gz
>>CONFIG_REGPARM=y
>>
>> $ grep nvidia /proc/modules
>>nvidia 2066568 22 - Live 0xe0b2d000
>>
>> $ uname -r
>>2.6.4-sy1
>>
>>No problems here. :-)
>>
>> > Also, the NVidia driver uses a bit of kernel stack, so it's
>> > incompatible with the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option in recent -mm
>> > kernels...
>>
>>Will have to remember that for 2.6.5, I'll let you know how it goes.
>>Thanks, Valdis.
>
>
> can you let me know how to compile the nvidia drivers for 4KSTACK? cause in
> the 2.6.5-rc1-mm1 is no more option to deactivate 4KSTACK.
> thx!

Complain to NVidia. It's the binary-only part of the driver that's the
real stack hog.

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Brian Gerst
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