Re: CML2 1.0.0 release announcement

2001-04-11 Thread davej
out Traceback (most recent call last): File "scripts/configtrans.py", line 104, in ? sys.stderr.write(args[0]); TypeError: read-only character buffer, int make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1 All the above was using an 2.4.3-ac4 tree, with CML2-1.0.0 regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www

Re: MTRR on AMD THUNDERBIRD

2001-03-31 Thread davej
(gcc version ^^ Fixed in 2.4.2-ac20 and higher. Read Changelogs 8) regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: /proc/cpuinfo for Intel P4 D850GB

2001-03-18 Thread davej
lem. This and a few other CPU related fixes should probably be backported to 2.0 if someone has the spare time. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: New ld must have --oformat instead of -oformat ?

2001-03-16 Thread davej
released yet, so you'll need to apply one of the above mentioned patchsets. (Or do it by hand as you already did :) regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: IDE UDMA on a CMD-648 Chip

2001-03-16 Thread davej
hoping to circumvent the bios. I assume it will involve some > measure of IDE initialization which I don't mind coding if > it does not exist yet. Well the hard part has already been done for you :) regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubsc

Re: another Cyrix/mtrr problem?

2001-03-13 Thread davej
b. You have a /proc/mtrr file c. You can add/delete ranges using /proc/mtrr (See Documentation/mtrr.txt for info on how to do this) If yes,yes,yes, it is a broken driver, and you should complain to nVidia, not linux-kernel. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej |

[PATCH] missing pci_enable_device

2001-03-12 Thread davej
pcnet32 is still touching resources before enabling. Patch below should apply to ac19. regards Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/pcnet32.c linux-dj/drivers/net/pcnet32.c --- linux/drivers/net

Re: [PATCH] Fix MTRR support for AMD Athlon

2001-03-12 Thread davej
vious. It guarantees no-one will make the mistake again :) (At least not with this switch). Patch rediffed against 2.4.2-ac19 regards, Dave. diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c linux-dj/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c Mo

Re: compile errors on 2.4.2-ac16

2001-03-08 Thread davej
Dave. diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/char/serial.c linux-dj/drivers/char/serial.c --- linux/drivers/char/serial.c Fri Mar 9 03:59:02 2001 +++ linux-dj/drivers/char/serial.c Fri Mar 9 04:12:25 2001 @@ -5494,7 +5494,7 @@

[PATCH] Fix Cyrix III build in 2.4.2-ac16.

2001-03-08 Thread davej
Oops! This diff matches the config name to that which is defined in Config.in. regards, Dave. diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/arch/i386/Makefile linux-dj/arch/i386/Makefile --- linux/arch/i386/MakefileFri Mar 9 02:26:56 2001 +++ linux-dj/arch/i386/Makefile Fri Mar 9

Re: [PATCH] More network pci_enable cleanups.

2001-02-11 Thread davej
x27;ll assume you've got the pci_enable stuff already cleaned there. > All the rest were applied. Great :) Thanks Jeff.. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[PATCH] Obsolete info in configure.help

2001-02-10 Thread davej
Hi Alan, If the 8129 is to be removed, may as well remove its appropriate entry in configure.help regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/Documentation/Configure.help linux-dj/Documentation

[PATCH] duplicate check in setup.c

2001-02-10 Thread davej
Hi Alan, We check for 'dl' twice in the cachesize checking in setup.c 'good eyes' to John Levon for spotting this before me, this patch has been sitting around for a while. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --excl

[PATCH] More network pci_enable cleanups.

2001-02-10 Thread davej
Hey Alan/Jeff, Here are the remaining network driver fixups for pci_enable_device() (Except starfire, which Jeff has a newer driver for which already has this fix). regards. Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude

[PATCH] Sound drivers pci_enable_device clean_up

2001-02-10 Thread davej
Hi guys, Here's a small fixup to your respective drivers to make pci_enable_device() calls happen before reading irq/resources. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/sound/es1370.c

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-10 Thread davej
red to hit swap space. Streaming I/O performance seems to have taken a hit lately. (This was 2.4.1-ac9 btw) regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[PATCH] Remaining net/ pci_enable_device cleanups.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
, I'll split it into chunks for Alan & the appropriate maintainers. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/defxx.c linux-dj/drivers/net/defxx.c --- linux/drivers/net/defxx.c

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
> rejected -- ioaddr assigned a value before pci_enable_device is called Better ? Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/starfire.c linux-dj/drivers/net/starfire.c --- linux/drivers/net/starfir

Re: [PATCH] Hamachi not doing pci_enable before reading resources

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Jeff Garzik wrote.. > rejected -- 'irq' assigned a value before pci_enable_device called. > better patch installed locally. Ugh, yep missed that one. Will look more carefully for those assignments. Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To

Re: [PATCH] natsemi pci_enable_device fixup.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
have been on my TODO for a while. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[PATCH] natsemi pci_enable_device fixup.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
And they keep on coming. d. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/natsemi.c linux-dj/drivers/net/natsemi.c --- linux/drivers/net/natsemi.c Wed Feb 7 12:42:40 2001 +++ linux-dj/drivers/net/natsemi.c

[PATCH] Hamachi not doing pci_enable before reading resources

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Hi Alan, Another driver not doing pci_enable_device() early enough. Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/hamachi.c linux-dj/drivers/net/hamachi.c --- linux/drivers/net/hamachi.c Wed Feb 7 12:42

FYI: Mailing list subscribed to l-k ?

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Every mail I'm sending to l-k gets me a reply from [EMAIL PROTECTED] saying it's awaiting moderator approval. ISTR this happened last week also with another domain ? regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

[PATCH] eepro100 reads pdev-> before pci_enable

2001-02-07 Thread davej
As in the previous patches, this driver also reads pdev->irq and pdev->resource before doing a pci_enable. This looks correct to me, and compiles, I lack the hardware to test this though. Comments ? regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs dif

[PATCH] ne2k calling pci_enable twice.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Hi Alan, This looks odd to me, we're enabling the device twice. Patch against ac4. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c linux-dj/drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c --- linux/driver

[PATCH] nvram driver 2.88mb floppy fix.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Hi Alan, Seems that 2.88mb drives can be type 5 or type 6 (I found a Thinkpad with a type 6) regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/char/nvram.c linux-dj/drivers/char/nvram.c --- linux

[PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-07 Thread davej
Hi Alan, Donald, This driver should call pci_enable_device before reading pdev->irq. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux/drivers/net/starfire.c linux-dj/drivers/net/starfire.c --- linux/driv

Re: [PATCH] minor ne2k-pci irq fix

2001-01-31 Thread davej
ags (pdev, 0) & IORESOURCE_IO) == 0)) { printk (KERN_ERR "ne2k-pci: no I/O resource at PCI BAR #0\n"); irq = pdev->irq; Comments? regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-29 Thread davej
Check out the other .pdf's in that dir too) You may also make sgmldocs/psdocs/htmldocs regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

[PATCH] PCNet32.c missing pci_free_consistent

2001-01-28 Thread davej
This driver fails to release allocations from pci_alloc_consistent in its failure paths. Patch below is against 2.4.0-ac12, but should also apply to Linus' tree cleanly. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/

Re: [PROBLEM]: Under 2.4.X hdparm displays device names backwards?;)

2001-01-27 Thread davej
gt; Model=DW CCA2305H0, FwRev=210.H721, > > hehe, might wanna fix that ;-) This is correct behaviour. You want hdparm -i not hdparm -I which reads info from the drive without doing endian changes. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs -

Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch

2001-01-12 Thread davej
o fall into the stranger category. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [patch] mm-cleanup-1 (2.4.0)

2001-01-07 Thread davej
on Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:15:54 +1100 subject: [PATCH]: sysctl to tune async and sync bdflush triggers I don't recall seeing any responses to that patch, but it seems to do exactly what you describe. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubsc

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-02 Thread davej
on (IBM DTLA disks on hpt3* controller) can't be > that unusual ? Note, this seems to be hpt366 only, not hpt3** I have two DTLA's on a HPT370 here in UDMA5, with no problems at all. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Coppermine is a PIII or a Celeron? WINCHIP2/WINCHIP3D diff?

2001-01-02 Thread davej
comeback in a future kernel just for Winchip-2As and above. Just needs someone to find the time. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones.http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: TEST13-PRE7 - Nvidia Kernel Module Compile Problem

2000-12-30 Thread davej
0:unknown field `unmap' specified in initializer > nv.c:860:warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type > make:*** [nv.o] Error 1 Delete the unmap: line somewhere near line 868 of nv.c Seems to be working fine here. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.suse.d

Problems with ov511/USB on test13-pre7

2000-12-30 Thread davej
Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: module programing

2000-12-29 Thread davej
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Sourav Sen wrote: > Any good updated for module programing? Rubini seems to be too outdated :( http://www.kernelnewbies.org has (what should be) an up to date list of links to both online books/documents & dead tree style books. regards, Davej. -- | Dav

[ANNOUNCE] Powertweak v0.99.0

2000-12-18 Thread davej
- Addition of a disk elevator tuning backend. - CPU register tuning is now possible, as long as you have the cpuid/msr drivers in your kernel (2.2.18, or 2.4.0test) - Working text mode user interface. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | Su

Re: ServerWorks docs?

2000-12-16 Thread davej
d on several occasions, but not got anywhere. Judging by the comments on the lm-sensors homepage, chances of them publically releasing register level info seems pretty slim. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe f

Re: PCI irq routing..

2000-12-11 Thread davej
irq 10 PIRQC (link 0x03): unrouted PIRQD (link 0x05): irq 5 regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: Signal 11

2000-12-11 Thread davej
both do the same with the various PCI options 'nobios' etc, and changing PnP OS in the BIOS makes no difference either. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-10 Thread davej
CI layer handle all of these quirks on startup, and be done. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Signal 11

2000-12-09 Thread davej
sted one such patch earlier this week :- http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2000-Week-49/0856.html regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-09 Thread davej
ied on the BIOS setting up cache line > sizes correctly. Are the "8"'s you've spotted due to drivers messing > with the cache line register or do they come from the BIOS? >From the BIOS. They are the USB controllers, I couldn't see any writes to the PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZ

PIRQ routing problem in test12-pre7.

2000-12-09 Thread davej
put device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev01) Works fine with test12-pre5 btw, the option pci=autoirq doesn't seem to exist. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~da

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-09 Thread davej
talking to the device ? The pdev_enable_device() stuff is marked __init, so done once at boottime. So yes, a driver could then fix up during initialisation if necessary. I was curious whether there are any known cases, or can the stuff in the existing drivers be nuked if/when x86 calls

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-09 Thread davej
all?) architectures use this, will it make sense to remove the PCI space cache line setting from drivers ? Or is there borked hardware out there that require drivers to say "This cacheline size must be xxx bytes, anything else will break" ? regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAI

pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-09 Thread davej
hy is pdev_device_enable no longer used ? regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Signal 11

2000-12-08 Thread davej
lacement K6-2 which was also screwed, but as I mentioned earlier, this box runs fine under 2.2 btw, I was unsubscribed from all lists at vger yesterday, for reasons currently unknown to me. Did this happen to anyone else, or did my mail setup break something? regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones &l

Re: Signal 11

2000-12-07 Thread davej
y I initially suspected overheating. I don't see it on my other 2.4 boxes though which is suspicious. But they don't get as much of a beating as this, which was up until last week my main workstation. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~d

Re: Signal 11

2000-12-07 Thread davej
to gcc 2.95.2 (from Debian woody) when I installed debian on it. If this is a compiler bug, it's one that no compiler I've tried seems to be immune from. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: cyrix III by via

2000-12-07 Thread davej
having the necessary hardware to test it. Are you saying the latest versions still don't recognise it? What kernel version did you try ? regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

[PATCH] UDF compile fix.

2000-12-04 Thread davej
Hi Linus, A writepage() parameter got removed, but not the caller in the UDF filesystem, patch below fixes this. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -urN linux.vanilla/fs/udf/inode.c linux/fs/udf/inode.c --- linux.vanilla/

Re: [PATCH] livelock in elevator scheduling

2000-11-22 Thread davej
ters. I hope a tool to monitor or set these value. http://www.powertweak.org (See CVS version). Helpful(?) advice, profiles, and easy to use UI. If we missed anything, we take patches, and can always use extra hands :) regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.

Re: Abit VP6 HPT370 support?

2000-11-20 Thread davej
ware? The packaging / manual for this card suggests that its hardware based. If it isn't, it's extremely misleading. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: Please send Changelog info and patch notices for the test and-pre releases.

2000-11-18 Thread davej
are also available at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/changelogs/ Shortly after Linus announces them. It also holds archives of the 2.0 & 2.2 changelogs. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: test11-pre5, Athlon, and Machine Check Architecture

2000-11-15 Thread davej
document 21656 (BIOS writers guide) public (or even a subset of it), we'll not be able to take advantage of these extra features. I'd suggest that until this happens, we leave bluesmoke.c Intel only. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | Su

RE: /proc tweaking

2000-11-14 Thread davej
argument, telling what doing autotune is ugly How do you propose that the kernel should "know" what role you intend to use it for ? Answer : It shouldn't, it's a userspace problem, best solved in userspace by a userspace tool. regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PR

Re: UDMA66/100 errors...

2000-11-14 Thread davej
me.. ;o( What model motherboard is this ? regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: UDMA66/100 errors...

2000-11-13 Thread davej
ogies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10) This chipset only supports up to UDMA2. regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: UDMA66/100 errors...

2000-11-13 Thread davej
gt;ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional. Why can this be? >00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10) This chipset only does up to UDMA2. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
all (bit 10) is undocumented by > AMD. Ah, thanks for clearing that up. regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message t

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > And where does sysenter/sysexit fit in? > sysenter/sysexit is the "sep" feature. Ah, of course. *slaps head* regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
e cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow > The early K6's used extended bit 10 to indicate syscall/sysret > capabality, but this version has some quirks that make it pretty much > unusable. Later K6's use extended bit 11 to indicate syscall/sysret. And where does sysenter/sysexit fit in?

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
multiple purposes. This was Linux' doing, not AMD's, by the way. Yep, after the c->x86_mask = tfms & 15; change I got the correct stepping, and the flags are now correct:- features : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[

Re: [Fwd: CPU detection revamp (Request for comments)]

2000-11-10 Thread davej
be related to the stepping bug though. I'll recompile a kernel with the &15 fix, and see if that cures all. btw, whilst all this is getting a shakedown, how about renaming that 'x86_mask' field to the more obvious 'x86_stepping' ? c->x86 would make more sense as c-&

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-08 Thread davej
ages, though, as well as i386, i586, i686, etc. > And this would fit on my 1.4bm floppy so I can boot my hard driveless > firewalling system, correct? Your mailer is misattributing people. I didn't say that, my comments were the ones you've attributed to Jeff. regards, dave

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread davej
or miscompiling for a wrong target. As a vendor, you don't worry about this as you ship binary kernels, and $enduser never needs to see a source tree. davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread davej
anything but a good idea. Please don't try to bring the braindamages of NT to Linux, it just isn't meant to happen. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

RE: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread davej
caught my eye of relevance was the one on dynamic optimization techniques, which is what I assume you were referring to. It's interesting stuff, but I think it'd be a cold day in hell before Linus accepts a dynamic recompiler in kernel space. :) regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL P

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread davej
e (without resorting to ugly hacks like the above), great for you, I (and I assume others) would like to hear about it. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread davej
e is nothing stopping us from doing that now, we just choose not to, as it would result in a ridiculously oversized kernel. Even if the loader threw away the non-used segments, I don't think anyone can justify an on-disk kernel image containing mostly code they never execute. regards, Dave

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread davej
he correct one at runtime ? I really hope I've misinterpreted your intention. regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread davej
ctions, > etc. All of this on x86 could be dynamically detected. Detecting the CPU isn't the issue (we already do all this), it's what to do when you've figured out what the CPU is. Show me code that can dynamically adjust the alignment of the routines/variables/structs dependa

Re: How to study linux kernel?

2000-11-07 Thread davej
> I'm interested in linux-kernel but I'm beginner. > So I don't know how to study linux-kernel. > Please tell me. http://www.kernelnewbies.org regards, Davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] x86 boot time check for cpu features

2000-11-03 Thread davej
) and it's switched off by the time Linux boots, I think we'd have heard about it by now, as MII users would notice a lack of features. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] x86 boot time check for cpu features

2000-11-03 Thread davej
Brian Gerst wrote... >> I believe the MII always has CPUID enabled. It was the older Cyrixes >> that did not. DaveJ is the guru.. > Well, according to comments in bugs.h, some broken BIOSes disable cpuid. That bug fix is for the earlier Cyrix 6x86 if I'm not mistaken. Th

Re: [PATCH] x86 boot time check for cpu features

2000-11-03 Thread davej
omething better. > I believe the MII always has CPUID enabled. It was the older Cyrixes > that did not. That was my understanding also. d. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: celeron-class misdetected as 486

2000-11-03 Thread davej
you open up and find out if it really is a Celeron in that box before such code gets added ? regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Oops in block_read_full_page() in test10-pre6

2000-10-29 Thread davej
mov0x18(%edx),%eax Code; c012efbc 12: a8 01 test $0x1,%al -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] x86 setup fixes continued.

2000-10-25 Thread davej
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > o Pentium IV support. > >- Now recognised as i686 instead of i1586. > This seems wrong. It is/was. This has since been fixed in recent pre-patches for over a week now. Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http

Re: Linux 2.4.0-test9 on an AMD ELAN SC520

2000-10-23 Thread davej
02, %al# "fast A20" version outb%al, $0x92 # some chips have only this So now we clobber all the bits instead of just the one bit that we need to change. Try changing this code to use the 2.2 method. regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROT

re: K6-2+ name (was Re: AMD CPU misdetection?)

2000-10-22 Thread davej
chitectural difference between the K6-3 & the K6-2+ to justify calling it the K6-4. AFAIR, the powersaving speed changing is the only thing thats changed. I'm buying a K6-2+ laptop tomorrow, so I guess I'll find out more then :) davej; -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: AMD CPU misdetection?

2000-10-22 Thread davej
ually the CPU that was released _after_ K6-3. Go figure. Why they didn't call it K6-4 is anyones guess. (See Pentium IV thread for more CPU naming nonsense) I guess Intel aren't the only ones who lose it occasionally. davej; -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~dav

Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design

2000-10-22 Thread davej
ck in performance that much. This doesn't even justify a reply. Please go read an OS internals book before you make such comments. regards, d. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: IDE disk slow? There's help...

2000-10-20 Thread davej
n identical configuration, and I get ~12MB/s Something doesn't add up here. What mode do you have the drive in? Regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&q

Re: oops with dd with test10-pre4

2000-10-20 Thread davej
nts of disk IO trigger this bug() easily. regards, d. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: test10-pre3

2000-10-17 Thread davej
pun on your typo. ;o) Oh dear. Too much wine and not enough sleep. Be thankful I didn't write code too in that mail :) regards, davej. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: test10-pre3

2000-10-16 Thread davej
wouldn't be surprised if we find other fun things to work around when we start seeing silicone in use. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: test10-pre3

2000-10-16 Thread davej
changes to setup.c in test10pre though. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: test10-pre3

2000-10-16 Thread davej
Programming manual with Pentium IV updates. Agreed. Why Intel chose family 15 is still beyond me though. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: A20 Gate enable sequence (setup.S)

2000-10-15 Thread davej
. What do you mean backwards? The only broken part I see is that unlike the same routine in 2.2, this one doesn't preserve the other bits. (Which the 2.4 code really should be doing or very strange things may happen on certain hardware) regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[PATCH] x86 setup fixes continued.

2000-10-12 Thread davej
Pentium IV support. - Now recognised as i686 instead of i1586. o Cyrix III support. o Removed duplication of cache size reporting. o Two extra routines marked as __init. o A few other minor cleanups. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej |

Re: Updated Linux 2.4 Status/TODO List (from the ALS show)

2000-10-12 Thread davej
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Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-12 Thread davej
e. regards, d. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-11 Thread davej
s to read gcc docs > Anyway, included is a small patch to solve these problems with Winchips. Looks okay to me. This isn't an issue on 2.2.x as we don't have the Winchip target there. Good work :) regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~dav

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread davej
ve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread davej
ntime. regards, Dave. [1] Why do all the fun things happen on my busiest days ? :) -- | Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test8/linux/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c linux/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c --- v2.4.0-test8/linux/ar

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-09 Thread davej
ssing the > kernel...' line is displayed. Nothing happens. It just freezes... Try the patch at .. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/davej/kernel/2.4/test9/setupfixes-1.diff My Winchip 2A box is still running 2.2, so I've not looked at this in depth, but I reordered some code in that pat

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