On 11/8/05, Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.de> wrote: > OSVs and ISVs, on the other hand, usually prefer to only test and harden > and qualify/certify a single kernel (which is why Dan's approach to Xen/ia64 > looks quite appealing). That's a completely bogus argument though. Perhaps the ISV is stupid enough not to realize what happens when you boot with pgsize=64K but it certainly doesn't avoid combinatorial explosion (e.g., programs that have 16KB page size hardcoded still may fail...). --david -- Mosberger Consulting LLC, voice/fax: 510-744-9372, http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/ 35706 Runckel Lane, Fremont, CA 94536 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Nov 09 11:09:27 2005
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