Re: FIXED_486_STRING ?

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:36:59 +0200

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:25:56AM +0600, Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 03:03:55AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Petko Manolov <lz5mj@yahoo.com> did some work on them circa 2.4.0test.
> > His patch is at http://www.dce.bg/~petkan/linux/string-486.diff
> These patches are included...

Look again.

(davej@noodles:linux-2.4.19-pre6)$ cat ../string-486.diff | patch -p1 -F1 --dry-run
patching file include/asm-i386/string-486.h
Hunk #13 FAILED at 365.
Hunk #14 succeeded at 388 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #15 succeeded at 409 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #16 succeeded at 452 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #17 succeeded at 516 (offset -5 lines).
1 out of 17 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/asm-i386/string-486.h.rej

Almost still applies except for one hunk.

> But the string-486.h itself is turned
> off by FIXED_486_STRING. BTW, what are the problems?

Not sure off-hand. I would hazard a guess that they copied
too little/too much, but Petko would be a better person
to ask.

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