Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/01/2012 02:52 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:10:47PM +0200, Pierre Beck wrote:
>> But what about other folks who upgrade their PC? They won't know what
>> hit them when their new PC crawls because disk is trashed.
> 
> I don't know, maybe backup their data, install a nice 64-bit Linux
> distro of their liking along with a 64-bit kernel which is several
> magnitudes more tested than its 32-bit counterpart, copy their data back
> and forget 32-bit ever existed...
> 

It is very sad, though, that there are still drivers which don't work
correctly in compat mode.  Please report bugs on those -- that is just
not acceptable.

Unfortunately few distros provide 64-bit kernels for their 32-bit
distros, which acerbates the problem.

	-hpa

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