Kernel Stack Sizes

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 19:03 -0400, Steve Brenneis wrote:
> I searched the archives of the list for discussion on this topic and
> couldn't find anything. Can anyone tell me why the Fedora 2.6 kernels
> are configured for 4K stacks? This breaks a wide variety of device
> drivers including the bundled firewire driver, linuxant Broadcom driver
> loader, and the nVidia graphics driver.

It's been discussed at length. Basically, if the drivers were Free
Software, they would likely have been customized to work with a 4K stack
long ago.

Apparently, much sooner than NVIDIA plans to support us.

> Is there a plan to correct this? Should I file a bug?

File a bug with NVIDIA (if they even allow you to) :).

Rui
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