Re: TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem [OFF TOPIC]

2000-12-31 Thread Justin
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Tony Hoyle wrote: > I'm intrigued... how did you resolve the 'mem_map_inc_count' and > 'mem_map_dec_count', > 'put_module_symbol' and 'get_module_symbol' references? > > It's only of academic interest for me now as I've ditched the nvidia - > not worth the hassle. > > Amusingl

Re: TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem

2000-12-31 Thread Tony Hoyle
Tony Spinillo wrote: > > The nvidia kernel module (from www.nvidia.com) has compiled and loaded > correctly with all test13-pre series up to pre6. I just tried to > compile and load under pre7. I'm intrigued... how did you resolve the 'mem_map_inc_count' and 'mem_map_dec_count', 'put_module_symb

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-31 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Chris Evans wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > > > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench > > > 48 on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). > > > > This is almost certainly

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-31 Thread Chris Evans
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 > > on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). > > This is almost certainly purely due to changing (some would

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread J Sloan
Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 > > on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). > > This is almost certainly purely due to changing (some would say "fixing") > the bd

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 > on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). This is almost certainly purely due to changing (some would say "fixing") the bdflush synchronous wait point. No

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread Steven Cole
It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). 2.2.183.53307 MB/sec (NB=4.41633 MB/sec 35.3307 MBit/sec) 2.2.19-pre3 3.81213 MB/sec (NB=4.76516 MB/sec 38.1213 MBit/sec) 2.4.0-test13

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread Ray Strode
>The LDT fixes in particular fix some potentially random strange behaviour. >And the alpha memmove() thing was a showstopper bug on alphas. And the network lockup bug... --Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem

2000-12-30 Thread davej
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 07:54:21PM +, Tony Spinillo wrote: > The nvidia kernel module (from www.nvidia.com) has compiled and loaded > correctly with all test13-pre series up to pre6. I just tried to > compile and load under pre7. > I got the following: > nv.c:860:unknown field `unmap