Re: 2.1.109 useable on 8mb RAM

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 11:45:08 +0200

> 2.1.113 -> 2.2pre maybe - but we have a lot of bugs left and some are both
> hard to fix and showstoppers
>
> http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/jobs.shtml

| mlock is broken
| Since 2.1.106 mlock has not paged in memory. (Fix with Linus)

Seems it's fixed by make_pages_present() in 2.1.108.

| PCI bios calls
| Some drivers need to call the PCI layer from an interrupt (fix done)

My patch already appeared in 2.1.108.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Q: How to start hacking Linux?  A: vi /boot/vmlinuz"


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