In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dan Swartzendruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>At 12:31 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, Alok K. Dhir wrote:
>>Problem is, the patch does not apply clean to the kernel, one of the
>>hunks for arch/i386/kernel/entry.S fails. I manually applied using my
>>best judgement, and the kernel complied and booted fine. But I got a
>>problem when the init script for Win4Lin ran in the boot process -
>>something to do with vnet - something to the effect of "found kernel
>>BUG" with a stack dump following. Once booted, attempting to start
>>win4lin results in an 'vm86 process died'.
>
>i ran into the same thing. apparently between 2.4.5 and 2.4.6, major changes
>were made to the kmem_alloc code (constants changed all over the place,
>resulting in an assertion failure in slab.c)
>
>>So - any chance of a working 2.4.6-pre3 patch?
for interest I tried asking Alan Cox (he of the ac kernel suffix of
course) what the chances were of getting the Win4lin patches better
integrated into the main kernel tree. He replied
'Their stuff is too buggy, too ugly and currently incompatibly licensed.
There is some discussion longer term that may lead that way - who knows'
:-)
Bob
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robert w hall
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