Re: 2.4.3pre1: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:73!

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:19:57 +1100

>On Suday, 11 March 2001, at 17:54:23 (+1100),
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> Bug caused by binary only driver. Complain to nvidia, not linux-kernel.
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:12:50 -0800,
David Raufeisen <david@fortyoz.org> wrote:
>Well, the kernel module is open source..

That is just the glue code that nvidia uses to fool people. The kernel
module just creates a device that the main nvidia driver abuses to
bypass all the kernel checks. The real code is a 2M binary only blob.

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