Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Could somebody please test this patch? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902050950030.32377-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990205094845.jdp@polstra.com>
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Gimme 5 and it'll be done... On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: > Could somebody with an Alpha close at hand do me a big favor and test > the attached patch? It moves the load address of the dynamic linker > from the bogus fixed address "2L*MAXDSIZ" to whereever a userland > mmap(0, ...) call would have put it. It should have no noticeable > affect on your system, except maybe if you look at "/proc/<pid>/map". > > The patch solves a problem for large-memory i386 configurations. > I'd like to commit it ASAP, but it would be nice to confirm first > that I didn't break Alphas. > > Thanks in advance, > John > --- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." > -- H. L. Mencken > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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