Re: Richard Stallman: Why “GNU’S Not Linux” and Why We Should “Say LiGNUx”

2013-12-24 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Monday 23 December 2013 12:01:06 Liam Lindholm wrote: > Dear fellow Linux kernel hackers: > > It has come to my attention that Richard M. Stallman, founder of the > Free Software Foundation and creator of the GNU project, has once > again set out to fragment our grassroots community. > > Recen

Re: Panic: dma_map_area overflow 66 bytes on 3.7+

2012-12-29 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Friday 28 December 2012 20:53:10 Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 20:05 +0100, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Since the release of 3.7 my main computer has been panicking a couple of > > times on both 3.7.0 and 3.7.1 because of a 

Panic: dma_map_area overflow 66 bytes on 3.7+

2012-12-28 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
troller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1) 03:07.0 Multimedia controller: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd Mantis DTV PCI Bridge Controller [Ver 1.0] (rev 01) Please tell, if more info is needed. Regards, Martin Nybo Andersen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Drop support for x86-32

2012-08-24 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Friday 24 August 2012 20:59:33 wbrana wrote: > On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: > > I want to use *my* old machines (hey, I payed for them) on whatever new > > hardware I can plug into them. I'm not an oracle and can't see into the > > future, however USB

Re: Drop support for x86-32

2012-08-24 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Friday 24 August 2012 20:18:49 wbrana wrote: > On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: > > That's right, but new hardware, that I wish to use with the old machines > > might > > not because of no backporting of new drivers. Same goes for new software > >

Re: Drop support for x86-32

2012-08-24 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Friday 24 August 2012 19:05:53 wbrana wrote: > On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: > > What I'd hate even more is rendering my old working hardware useless by > > removing x86-32 support from the kernel. To reason the removal by saying > > "Microsoft p

Re: Drop support for x86-32

2012-08-24 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Friday 24 August 2012 18:24:16 Chris Friesen wrote: > On 08/24/2012 10:14 AM, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: > > (And I'm still not sure why one would run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit > > architecture...) > > There are several architectures (powerpc comes to mind) w

Re: Drop support for x86-32

2012-08-24 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Friday 24 August 2012 18:17:14 wbrana wrote: > On 8/24/12, Martin Nybo Andersen wrote: > > Ahh..., so the development time saved by not supporting x86-32 in > > mainline can > > now be used by backporting new features to the forementioned long term > > tree?

Re: Drop support for x86-32

2012-08-24 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
On Friday 24 August 2012 17:55:08 wbrana wrote: > On 8/24/12, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > You really think that there are no 32bit x86-compatible CPUs in the > > embedded world? > > x86-32 would be supported by long term tree until all x86-32 CPU disappear Ahh..., so the development time saved

Re: Drop support for x86-32

2012-08-23 Thread Martin Nybo Andersen
can spend their time supporting X32 > instead of x86-32 or support x86-64 only as 99% of users will be able > to run x86-64 software if x86-32 will be dropped > - wouldn't be dropped this year, but there should be plan when it will > be dropped e.g. when Windows 9 will be released > &