Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:32:07 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: SiS drm broken during 2.6.9-rc1-bk1 |
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* Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> > layout is the most likely patch to have broken things... I haven't > > confirmed it is this particular patch yet, tomorrow I'll get some time to > > do it .. > > > > okay running client applications using > > setarch -L i386 glxgears > > makes them work.. I'll start looking for a bug in the the SIS client > side library..
yeah. Look for 2GB assumptions - e.g. assumptions that pointers cast to integer will be positive values, such as:
int i;
i = malloc(somesize); if (i <= 0) handle_alloc_failure();
here with the topdown layout you'd get a malloc 'failure'.
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