Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | | Subject | Re: Regressions in the last kernels | | Date | Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:37:44 +0200 |
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Please don't drop the CC list from your replies and please don't top-post.
On Sunday, 15 of June 2008, werner wrote: > The 2nd problem anyway is present with the 2.6.26-rc5 and -rc4 kernels. > It was NOT presend with 2.6.25-rc9, at least not on 1 IBM laptop what I had > before-yesterday, which had the problem with 2.6.26-rc5/4 but not with > 2.6.25-rc9 (all other config was the same). It did NOT help change edd from > off to on, so that is a new problem. With -rc6, I donk know because I couldnt > test it yet, the man had gone away with his laptop already.
Okay, so this issue seems to be a recent regression.
> Many people bring me old computers to repair. I always throw out Windows and > install Linux. So I see plenty kernel errors. But I dont have time to report them > all, only some. And normally I dont have long time the computers because > later the people come and go away with them computers. > > I make all my kernel packages for i486 because here in the 3rd world many > people have old computers ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/install/sys/ > However these kernels should work on newer computers too, like on my server > what has 8 GB memory. With i486, all the last kernels 2.6.26 cannot be > configured to more than 4 GB and, running, nor that is working correctly.
This is intentional, as i486 processors cannot handle more than 4 GB of RAM.
Thanks, Rafael
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