Re: Kernel 2.6.9 breaks NVidia module, cannot start X.

[Brice Goglin]

> Wow, I'm wondering. The kernel-of-the-day from SUSE (20040929, 20041023
> and 20041028) (2.6.8 + 2.6.9-rc2 IIRC) do not even have unsigned int
> __VMALLOC_RESERVE in arch/i386/mm/init.c.
>
> More surprisingly, there is not any VMALLOC thing in the NV sources:
>
> 12:56 io:../src/nv # pwd
> /usr/src/NV/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0/usr/src/nv
> 12:56 io:../src/nv # grep VMALLOC_RES *
> 12:56 io:../src/nv # cd /usr/src/NV6/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/
> 12:56 io:../src/nv # grep VMALLOC_RES *
> 12:56 io:../src/nv #

IIRC, they are using MAXMEM which is defined to 
(-__PAGE_OFFSET-__VMALLOC_RESERVE) in asm-i386/page.h

Brice
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