On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 04:54:40PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> IIRC, I saw with gdb that int are 4-byte aligned even on x86_64 - how does it
> go for 2-byte and 1-byte wide fields?
On Linux/x86_64, all integer types are alligned according to there size.
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On Monday 19 December 2005 21:19, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 December 2005 21:15, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:26:44PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > > > The problem is that the same declaration is used in kernel sources.
> >
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 06:25:20PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Why (in format v3) is everything in network byte order?
>
> I'm not entitled to answer - I wasn't here when it was born, and the decision
> traces to V2.
It's the reason that was speculated - it makes COW files more transportable.
On Friday 16 December 2005 17:03, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Thursday 15 December 2005 21:15, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:26:44PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> We want a utility read-wrong-V3-header / write right one.
I have this support - indeed I've integrated the code to recog
All:
I'm a recent convert to UML for VDS/PS hosting and
have talked with Jeff about providing RPMs of UML kernels.
I'd like to ask for input on a standardized
location for the kernel and modules to be installed to as well as any patches
you would like to see included in releases.
I plan o
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:24, Michael Stowe wrote:
> All:
>
> I'm a recent convert to UML for VDS/PS hosting and have talked with Jeff
> about providing RPMs of UML kernels.
>
> I'd like to ask for input on a standardized location for the kernel and
> modules to be installed to as well as any
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
So we need an utility doing just the setup and the writeout. Should be easy to
do, but I must learn the complete COW API. I will dismiss this task if I see
(as it seems) that there are no existing COW files.
Personally I stopped trusting COW files once
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Michael Stowe wrote:
> I'm a recent convert to UML for VDS/PS hosting and have talked with Jeff
> about providing RPMs of UML kernels.
> I'd like to ask for input on a standardized location for the kernel and
> modules to be installed to as well as any patches you would lik
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Monday 19 December 2005 21:19, Jim Carter wrote:
> The problem lies in the #ifdef mapping ntohll to _bswap64 - in 2.6.13 it was
> changed in a wrong way (and not by anybody present here - somebody went with
> a "nice cleanup" without understanding wh
