Mike assumes that zlib is valgrind clean. In actual fact there are a number of cases where loop unrolling in the zlib library causes the mentioned “Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)” warnings. These are safe since the results of the comparison are subsequently ignored but obviously valgrind doesn’t know that. This is […]

If you’re having trouble with a natsemi ethernet controller locking up in Linux after complaining about oversized ethernet frames like this: eth0: Oversized(?) Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x00ba8b status 0xe0000bd5. then this patch (or a kernel version which includes it; 2.6.16 or later should) may be useful. The patch is against 2.6.9+ versions […]