Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?

[Brian Gerst]

Dominik Karall wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 04:36, Steve Youngs wrote:
>
> > * 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.
>
>
> 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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