On 26/09/07 14:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Testing this patch now:
>
> >From 2efa33f81ef56e7700c09a3d8a881c96692149e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:11:43 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] [x86 setup] Handle case of improperly terminat
Jordan Crouse wrote:
>
> Hmm - the old code seems to fail to e801 when CF was set too:
>
> int $0x15 # make the call
> jc bail820 # fall to e801 if it fails
>
> cmpl$SMAP, %eax # check the return
On 26/09/07 14:04 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > On 26/09/07 12:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Please try the following debug patch to let us know what is going on.
> >>
> >>-hpa
> >
> >> diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
> >> index 1
Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 26/09/07 12:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Please try the following debug patch to let us know what is going on.
>>
>> -hpa
>
>> diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
>> index 1a2e62d..a0ccf29 100644
>> --- a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
>> ++
On 26/09/07 12:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Please try the following debug patch to let us know what is going on.
>
> -hpa
> diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
> index 1a2e62d..a0ccf29 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
>
Jordan Crouse wrote:
>
> Its the latter - max_pfn as read by find_max_pfn() in arch/i386/e820.c
> is being set to 9F (640k) in the broken case, this due to the
> the e820 map looking something like this:
>
> Address Size Type
> 0009FC00 1
> 0009FC00 0400 2
> 000E
Jordan Crouse wrote:
>
> As background, I'm using syslinux 3.36 as my loader here - I've used this
> exact same version for a very long time, so I don't blame it in the least.
> Something is getting confused in the early kernel, and whatever that
> something is, a still unknown change in a newer v
On 26/09/07 07:10 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > this is what git bisect told me about the problem:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux-2.6$ git bisect good
> > 4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09f9511c400042a5 is first bad commit
> > commit 4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09
> There is something very fishy.
>
> The only documentation you've given us so far is a screen shot which
> contained a message ("BIOS data check successful") which doesn't occur
> in the kernel.
>
> The loader string doesn't look all that familiar either; it looks like
> an extremely old
Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Hello all,
> this is what git bisect told me about the problem:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux-2.6$ git bisect good
> 4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09f9511c400042a5 is first bad commit
> commit 4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09f9511c400042a5
> Author: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
: Joerg Pommnitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Gesendet: Dienstag, den 25. September 2007, 17:04:52 Uhr
Betreff: Re: Problems with 2.6.23-rc6 on AMD Geode LX800
On 25/09/07 01:38 -0700, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Chuck, Jordan,
> thanks for taking an in
On 25/09/07 01:38 -0700, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Chuck, Jordan,
> thanks for taking an interest in this problem. As suggested by Jordan I tried
> a new
> BIOS revision from
> http://www.digitallogic.ch/index.php?id=256&dir=/MSEP800%20-%20SM800PCX%20%20-%20MPC20%20-%20MPC21&mountpoint=23
>
> Unfor
Chuck, Jordan,
thanks for taking an interest in this problem. As suggested by Jordan I tried a
new
BIOS revision from
http://www.digitallogic.ch/index.php?id=256&dir=/MSEP800%20-%20SM800PCX%20%20-%20MPC20%20-%20MPC21&mountpoint=23
Unfortunately the kernel still fails to boot in the same way.
Do
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 09/20/2007 08:32 AM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> yesterday I tried to boot a kernel built from the current wireless-dev git
>> tree (ath5k branch)
>> on a MSEP800/A board (see http://www.milesie.co.uk/pdf/MSEP800.pdf). The
>> board
>> contains an AMD Geode LX800
On 09/20/2007 08:32 AM, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Hello all,
> yesterday I tried to boot a kernel built from the current wireless-dev git
> tree (ath5k branch)
> on a MSEP800/A board (see http://www.milesie.co.uk/pdf/MSEP800.pdf). The board
> contains an AMD Geode LX800 CPU.
> The wireless-dev tree
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