Re: boot floppies and 2.4.x kernels
On Wed Sep 06, 2000 at 03:27:21AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:08:36PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > It looks like my 2.4.x sysinfo patch has (finally) made it into kernel
> > 2.4.0-test8-pre5, restoring binary compatibility with 2.2.x.
>
> This isn't the same thing Ulrich Drepper was wanting, was it? If so,
> that's a major 180 by Linus.
This is somewhat related to one of Uli's rants, but I backed up my complaining
with code. Now it works just like 2.2.x unless the system has more then 4Gib
(since in that case 2.2.x is broken anyways),
-Erik
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