Re: Fwd: newb question : list of elligible computers to debian-68k
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Finn Thain wrote:
> I think we could just create a special initrd for the purpose and let
> the ATC fault kill the box. Not sure how to arrange for the correct page
> to be non-resident when you do this from userspace (is demand paging
> always done one page at-a-time?).
I think this is what mmap does. I'll see if I can come up with a kernel
having a suitable initramfs.
Finn
> But if you use an FPU op to generate the fault, and run it under an FPU
> emulation, it shouldn't kill any interesting boxes (i.e. no bug, bug +
> FPU).
>
> Finn
>
> >
> > Brad Boyer
> > flar@allandria.com
> >
> >
> >
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