Guido Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:12:24PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > [..snip..] > > Is it possible to update kernel-patch-*-mips before to include the appended > > patch or is this too late? It fixes the kernel stack corruption encountered > > on Personal DECstations which is triggered by e.g. debian-installer. > Is it also triggerd by boot-floppies? debian-installer is a sarge > issue only.
Sorry, I meant s/debian-installer/dbootstrap/ > Are Personal DECstations supported by the current (2.4.17) > kernel images? It works fine as long as you don't ask for the machine's identification. > If not, can we delay this 'til r2, so we can give things > proper testing (the patch looks harmless enough on the other hand)? Basically it increases the buffersize for strcat/strcpy to avoid the overflow. The other DECstations have shorter names, that's why they work. Thiemo
