Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:53:40 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits |
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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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