Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?

From: Steve Youngs
Date: Sun Mar 14 2004 - 22:42:59 EST


* Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:24:01 GMT, Adam Jones <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.


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