Re: Unaligned accesses (was Re: debian on ruffian)
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Andrew Isaacson wrote:
> The X server unaligned accesses are apparently fixable, and there
> might be a fix in the next X release. I'll see about getting a patch
> if anyone is interested.
Yes :)
> In the meantime, I've got a kernel patch that allows a bit more
> control over how the kernel logs unaligned accesses. This patch
> creates a new /proc file, /proc/sys/kernel/log-unaligned. If this
> file contains '0', unaligned accesses are not logged. If this file
> contains '1', unaligned accesses are logged.
>
> I'd appreciate knowing if anybody finds this useful.
Actually, this will be very useful. Do you know if it'll apply cleanly to
the devel kernels? I'm not at my alpha now, otherwise I would check.
C
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