On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:04:00 -0700 Ramesh <rrame...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I went over the currently open buglist to see if I could contribute by > fixing some of them to start with. One of the questions I had is some > bugs are platform specific / hardware specific. > > For eg: > > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! (AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core) What's the bug number? (Never mention bugs without the bug number). Why choose that bug to look at in the first place? You have to choose a bug that you have some chance of fixing. There are lots of bugs that are easier to fix than this one. > To reproduce the problem, fix & test it - you need to have access to > this specific processor? or are there machines out there owned by > specific project groups with a serial access to work on such problems? One machine for each supported architecture is available to DD's but only via remote SSH access. > The reason am asking this is that quite obviously not everyone will > have access to specific hardware, in such case how developers fix such > specific problems?? By careful requests for specific information from the person who does have such hardware and by a thorough knowledge of the codebase to work out if something that is not directly hardware-specific is actually the problem but is just being "hidden" on more common hardware. e.g. this could be a race condition but as you didn't provide the bug number, no-one can help with that specific problem. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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