From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Feb 5 09:50:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18975 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:50:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18970 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:50:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00175; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:50:09 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: John Polstra cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Could somebody please test this patch? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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//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