Re: linux 3.10.1 with initrd (was Re: linux 3.8.12-1 (atari flavour) does not boot)

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
Geert, So we could stop blocking further interrupts in multi platform kernels. How much of a performance hit will this be on say a stock Falcon or TT? That's 15000 - 3 more interrupts per second. Yep, but pretty much all NOP. Is the interrupt entry/return that much of a hassle these days?

Re: linux 3.10.1 with initrd (was Re: linux 3.8.12-1 (atari flavour) does not boot)

2013-08-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote: >>> What is the cause of the problem exactly - the hsync handler changing the >>> IPL to block out further interrupts, whenever it is called for the first >>> time after interrupts are enabled? We could stop doing that on >>> multi-platform ke

Re: linux 3.10.1 with initrd (was Re: linux 3.8.12-1 (atari flavour) does not boot)

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Geert, Didn't we have that sorted out earlier? I seem to recall this has surfaced before. You mean commit 94674cd5299e825cb31979c3b9a4c1a3e6074839 ("m68k: Correct the Atari ALLOWINT definition")? That was a related but slightly different problem. That's proably what I recalled, yes. What

Re: linux 3.10.1 with initrd (was Re: linux 3.8.12-1 (atari flavour) does not boot)

2013-08-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: >>> [0.16] WARNING: at /root/linux-3.10.1/init/main.c:698 >>> do_one_initcall+0x12e/0x13a() >>> [0.16] initcall param_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1a4 returned with disabled >>> interrupts >>> >>> This seems to happen for several initcall

Re: linux 3.10.1 with initrd (was Re: linux 3.8.12-1 (atari flavour) does not boot)

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi Geert, [0.16] WARNING: at /root/linux-3.10.1/init/main.c:698 do_one_initcall+0x12e/0x13a() [0.16] initcall param_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1a4 returned with disabled interrupts This seems to happen for several initcalls. Geert et al, can you have a look at them, they’re scary ☺

Re: linux 3.10.1 with initrd (was Re: linux 3.8.12-1 (atari flavour) does not boot)

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Schmitz
Thorsten, I’d like the m68k people to read the whole eMail and test https://www.freewrt.org/~tg/dp/dists/hacks/dirty/Crossbuilt/linux/ linux-image-3.10-0+m68k.1-m68k_3.10.1-1+m68k.1_m68k.deb on all their boxen, at least Amiga/Atari/Macintosh Not anytime soon - the boot disk on my Falcon just