> Hi,
>
> The changes in the task_struct introduced in 2.1.77 caused the offsets
> to task_struct fields used in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S to be shifted one
> longword, the whole thing worked only by some means of magic. The following
> patch corrects these offsets, but wouldn't it be good to switch to
> machine-generated offsets as Sparc people already do?
>
> Have a nice fortnight
Perhaps this explains why 2.1.77 panics on my Alpha? 2.1.76 works fine.
Steve