Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:03:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | 2.3.28 bugs and things to do. |
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Hi,
If you thought 2.3.28 is perfect here is the list of known (to me) bugs.
1. Memory sizing does not work on Compaq Proliant 1600. Workaround: use "mem=" option to set manually. Failure to do so will result in filesystems corruption (and other bad things) within a few minutes of normal day-to-day activity (compiling the kernel).
2. ramdisk is broken (i.e. doesn't work at all - all data returned is zeroed). Probably due to some changes in buffer/page caches. I have more info on this but it is still not fixed.
3. Running lilo on some (large) disks results in
ll_rw_block: device 08:00: only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096)
Workaround: use "linear" option in /etc/lilo.conf.
4. zeropage corrupted on boot (try to pass a command_line[] longer than a few bytes and see for yourself. Workaround: don't use such a long command_line[], if necessary change the kernel sources for defaults you prefer.
5. binfmt link ordering is not optimal. Niels Kristian Bech Jensen sent me a patch which I tested and found to work fine. I put a copy on:
http://www.ocston.org/~tigran/patches/other/niels-2.3.28.patch
I hope Linus will accept it.
That's all for now :)
Regards, ------ Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796 Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
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