On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:08:59PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > dann frazier wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:30:25PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> Helge Deller schrieb am Montag, dem 15. Dezember 2008: > >> > >>> Matt Taggart wrote: > >>>> The real problem is that no one is fixing hppa kernel problems. I don't > >>>> see > >>>> much point in keeping the archive up to date if nobody is working on > >>>> fixing > >>>> the kernel (not currently and I suspect not in the future either). This > >>>> has > >>>> been stated on the debian-hppa list several times over a long period and > >>>> in > >>>> that time no one (AFAIK) has stepped up to work on it. > >>> Matt, > >>> > >>> We have done quite some bugfixing in the last weeks and upstream > >>> 2.6.28-rcX works pretty well now. > >> What does that mean for the lenny 2.6.26 kernel? > > > > Well, obviously when there's a fix upstream we will look at > > backporting this into 2.6.26. > > I've just posted a short analysis of the problem and a proposed kernel > patch in: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478717#118 > > It fixes the kernel crashes for me and should help to do further > analysis without crashing the running linux kernel. > > The patch (and the problem) needs further discussion on parisc-linux > kernel mailing list though...
Thanks Helge! Just in case its relevant to your investigation, note that this is also an issue when using a pure NPTL environment. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
