Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

I'm curious. Why does Linux make that friendly 98/9a/88 looking postcode pattern when it's running? DOS and DOS95 don't do that. I'm begining to feel like I can tell the system health by observing it, kind of like "seeing the matrix." Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

How come top and /proc/meminfo on 2.4.0 says 0K shared?

is this a bug? We have a number of machines running 2.4.0 and /proc/meminfo says we're sharing no memory. top says that also, probably because it just reads /proc/meminfo, or at least I assume that's how it works.All the individual procs show the memory they are sharing though. thanks, Ian

Octal vs. Hex war o' death

I'm sure this is a religious issue... but I'm going to suggest it anyways because I spent a few minutes on it. So I was hacking away trying to get my embedded box to run the correct stuff after booting up and I ran into an octal speed bump. You see, all throughout rd.c there are these hex consta

Loading initrd from flash

Is there a standardized way of doing this yet? I'm not using any MTD stuff, yet, and it doesn't look like something that the code currently does. Ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at h

Re: [Criticism]C++ Flamewar

Mark Salisbury wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Generic Kernel Geek wrote: > > > > > > C++ sucks for kernel dev, because I say it does. > > the original-original post was somebody asking why not make t