On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:41:17PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > eww, really need to get 2.0 going where i can get a zlib in there... > > > > i haven't messed with that buffer limit since i don't really know the > > implications, raising it to 10MB seems excessive and dangerous. > > Well... from what I remember of yaboot 1.x memory map, it's ok ;) > > I did just that here... but maybe I missed something, I may have > had a good reason to limit it to 4Mb ... i think thats going to need some wide testing before ill change it, certain distributions are counting on me not gratuitously breaking things, and ive stated many times i will not make major or risky changes to 1.x, even if it means it stays crippled until we get 2.0. (hint, help with 2.0). and my experience in dealing with 1.x is that every time any little thing gets changed it fucks something up somewhere. id release a -pre or something, but since everyone ignores them i won't. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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