feedback and request for help with x86_64 preview

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:53, Karen Spearel wrote:

> Now, if we are talking 2.6, that is an entirely different story.  An
> attempt to get 2.6 running failed just as it does on my K8V...slab
> corruption as far as the eye can see. 

Just turn off CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.  It's known not to work well on AMD64
platforms with 2.6, though nobody's bothered to figure out why, since
the errors seem to be spurious and not symptoms of bugs outside the slab
debug code itself.

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