Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-22 Thread Bob Tracy
john stultz wrote: > Great to hear! Please do send me the dmesg output so I can look to > narrow down what's happening w/ the PIT. Sent under separate cover... -- --- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.ant

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-22 Thread john stultz
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:39 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:14 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > > john stultz wrote: > > > > Try this patch and let me know if it does the right thing. > > > > > > Will do. I'll report back in a few hours. > > > > > > > Althoug

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-22 Thread Bob Tracy
john stultz wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:14 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > john stultz wrote: > > > Try this patch and let me know if it does the right thing. > > > > Will do. I'll report back in a few hours. > > > > > Although I do > > > still need to dig a bit on the PIT hang issue. > > > >

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 12:25 -0700, john stultz wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:14 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > john stultz wrote: > > > Try this patch and let me know if it does the right thing. > > > > Will do. I'll report back in a few hours. > > > > > Although I do > > > still need to dig a

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-22 Thread john stultz
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:14 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > Try this patch and let me know if it does the right thing. > > Will do. I'll report back in a few hours. > > > Although I do > > still need to dig a bit on the PIT hang issue. > > Any chance this might be related to th

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-22 Thread Bob Tracy
john stultz wrote: > Try this patch and let me know if it does the right thing. Will do. I'll report back in a few hours. > Although I do > still need to dig a bit on the PIT hang issue. Any chance this might be related to the APIC issues currently being discussed in other threads? -- ---

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-22 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:45 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > > > Also, does booting w/ "clocksource=jiffies" change the behavior? > > Works fine with 2.6.21-rc4. I'm running on that kernel as I type this. > > > Also trying booting w/ "notsc" would be a useful data point. > > Boo

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Tracy
john stultz wrote: > > > Also, does booting w/ "clocksource=jiffies" change the behavior? Works fine with 2.6.21-rc4. I'm running on that kernel as I type this. > Also trying booting w/ "notsc" would be a useful data point. Boot hangs at the point indicated in my original message. I *did* noti

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-21 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:00 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > Hmmm. Are you able to capture a full dmesg? > > For the "it hangs" case, short of either trying to boot with the > console I/O redirected to a serial port or hooking up a printer to > the console and scanning in the resul

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Tracy
john stultz wrote: > Hmmm. Are you able to capture a full dmesg? For the "it hangs" case, short of either trying to boot with the console I/O redirected to a serial port or hooking up a printer to the console and scanning in the resulting output, I don't think so. There's too much output prior to

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-21 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:18 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Thanks for narrowing it down, I'm adding John to cc:. > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Bob Tracy wrote: > > I originally wrote: > > > Platform is a Dell CPxJ 650GT notebook. Attempts to boot 2.6.21-rc3 > > > and -rc4 produce the

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-21 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Thanks for narrowing it down, I'm adding John to cc:. On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Bob Tracy wrote: > I originally wrote: > > Platform is a Dell CPxJ 650GT notebook. Attempts to boot 2.6.21-rc3 > > and -rc4 produce the following console output: > > > > (apparently normal boot) > > ... > > Unifor

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Tracy
I originally wrote: > Platform is a Dell CPxJ 650GT notebook. Attempts to boot 2.6.21-rc3 > and -rc4 produce the following console output: > > (apparently normal boot) > ... > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override w

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Bob Tracy wrote: > I applied all of the 2.6.21-rc2-rc3 incremental patch except for the > portion applicable to "drivers/ide" files. The problem seems to be > elsewhere: 2.6.21-rc3 minus the drivers/ide changes still hangs at the > same spot during the boot process. Any id

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-19 Thread Bob Tracy
Jiri wrote: > Looks like it's related to some change in drivers/ide. As there have been > only 13 patches in this area between rc2 and rc3, it should take only 3 or > 4 reboots to figure the offending patch using git-bisect - could you > please give it a try? I applied all of the 2.6.21-rc2-rc3

Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-18 Thread Jiri Kosina
(added Bartlomiej to CC) On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Bob Tracy wrote: > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:07.1 > PIIX4: chipset revision 1 > PIIX4: not 100% na

[BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Tracy
Platform is a Dell CPxJ 650GT notebook. Attempts to boot 2.6.21-rc3 and -rc4 produce the following console output: (apparently normal boot) ... Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controlle