On Sunday 09 April 2006 19:01, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:57:55PM +0200, Joris van Rantwijk wrote:
> > It soon made sense to me that a 3G/1G configured UML would crash like
> > this, but I then found that UML 2.6.16.2 configured for 2G/2G crashed
> > in exactly the same way. I think this is due to the fact that STUB_CODE
> > and STUB_DATA are fixed at the 3G/1G settings. After changing these
> > settings, everything seems to work properly in 2G/2G mode.

> Your analysis is correct, and the patch is fine as far as it goes, but
> we were talking about this a week or so ago about detecting the host
> address space split at runtime.  There's a lot more potential
> flexibility there than just 3/1 and 2/2.

Jeff, for now please merge a band-aid patch (and also add an option to support 
1G/3G, while at it).

Delaying the band-aid only makes sense when you've got the proper fix reaching 
completion or when the band-aid is clearly an hack and hinders maintenability 
in a relevant way - we don't want to keep these configurations "unsupported".

-- 
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
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