Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932167AbVIEB4X (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:56:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932172AbVIEB4X (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:56:23 -0400 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org ([207.7.145.18]:59834 "EHLO twinlark.arctic.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932167AbVIEB4X (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:56:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:56:22 -0700 (PDT) From: dean gaudet To: Adrian Bunk cc: Alex Davis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS In-Reply-To: <20050905014153.GD3741@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20050905013030.14361.qmail@web50211.mail.yahoo.com> <20050905014153.GD3741@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 24 On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > How do you put pressure on hardware manufacturers for getting them to > release the specs? > > If they are able to write "supported by Linux" on their products anyway > because there's a driver that runs under NdisWrapper? that's specious... they can put "supported by Linux" on their products by supplying a binary-only driver too... ndiswrapper is orthogonal to that problem. on a tangent... has there been any further research/work on page clustering? wli's patches haven't been updated in a while... it's another way to supply larger stacks. (hell with 16KiB "pages" i'd be stoked to "waste" the bottom 4KiB of each stack with an unmapped page to ensure overflow is detected.) -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/