On Jun 12, 12:05, Trevor Woerner wrote: [...] >I compiled a 64-bit MIPS kernel, then built a busybox-based ramdisk. At >first I couldn't get busybox's 'init' to work but later solved it by >disabling the 'check_memory()' call. > >Further investigation into why the 'check_memory()' call was failing >revealed a problem with the 'sysinfo()' system call. The kernel is >64-bit, therefore when it fills in the 'struct sysinfo' (as it does >when 'sys_meminfo()' is called) unsigned int's are 64 bits. But back in >userspace, the 'struct sysinfo' that gets allocated thinks that >unsigned int's are 32 bits. [...] Hm, that sounds wrong to me. 'int' is supposed to be 32 bits also on 64-bit systems, only 'long' should be 64 bits. -Tor
