Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: > > >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after > > >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody > > >was able to explain why, so it was turned off. > > > > I know why it was turned off by default. The annoying this is that now >

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-23 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
> > > >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after > >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody > >was able to explain why, so it was turned off. > > I know why it was turned off by default. The annoying this is that now > the *only* way to activate the watchdog is via a boot

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac21 > o atyfb mode updates for powermac (Olaf Hering) 60 Hz modes should be marked 60 Hz. Add separator comment. --- linux-2.4.2-ac21/drivers/video/macmodes.c.orig Fri Mar 23 08:17:54 2001 +++ linux-2.4.2-ac21/drivers

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:50:49 +, "Andrew Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> >> Am I the only person who is annoyed that nmi watchdog is now off by >> default and the only way to activate it is by a boot parameter? You >> cannot even patch the kernel to build a version

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Andrew Morton
Keith Owens wrote: > > Am I the only person who is annoyed that nmi watchdog is now off by > default and the only way to activate it is by a boot parameter? You > cannot even patch the kernel to build a version that has nmi watchdog > on because the startup code runs out of the __setup routine,

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:02:54 +0100, Frank de Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Linux 2.4.2-ac21 does not like my box, or the other way around: > >loading the agpgart module (MGA G400 AGP) -> system hangs >loading the SCSI module (53c875) -> system hangs > >In both c

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: OK. > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Does not build for PPro/P-II. i586 is OK. > > You need to avoid enabling 64G support. The PAE stuff (as Linus said > with > 2.4.3pre6) is currently broken. Once Linus and co fix it I'll merge the > fixed >

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Does not build for PPro/P-II. i586 is OK. === Cut === ld -m elf_i386 -T /tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.2ac21/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Does not build for PPro/P-II. i586 is OK. You need to avoid enabling 64G support. The PAE stuff (as Linus said with 2.4.3pre6) is currently broken. Once Linus and co fix it I'll merge the fixed one Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Frank de Lange
Oops... Linux 2.4.2-ac21 does not like my box, or the other way around: loading the agpgart module (MGA G400 AGP) -> system hangs loading the SCSI module (53c875) -> system hangs In both cases, the magic SysRq sequence does not work, but it is still possible to ping the box from the o

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Credit where credit's due... On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac21 > o Update NEC DDB5476 eval board support (Geert Uytterhoeven) Actually this port was done by Jun Sun (based on the DDB5074 port). > o Update NEC DDB5074 eval board support (Geert Uytterh

Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) 2.4.2-ac21 o Merge with Linus 2.4.3pre6 o Close last known rei