Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-21 Thread Thomas Sailer
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Oops? I thought the paired controller there is for OSes not being able > to handle EHCI yet? So that USB works even for those ... I think EHCI > should handle even 1.x devices ... I may be wrong, though. Check the Intel EHCI spec. Esp. the chapter about port handover...

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-21 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 01:37:23PM +0100, Thomas Sailer wrote: > > I hope EHCI makes it all moot. Some way or another. > > Only for USB2 devices. EHCI is supposed to be paired with an existing > UHCI or OHCI controller core that is supposed to take over the USB connector > if an USB 1.x hub or d

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-20 Thread Thomas Sailer
Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'd disagree. UHCI has tons of advantages, not the least of which is > [Cthat it was there first and is widely available. If OHCI hadn't been > done we'd have _one_ nice good USB controller implementation instead of UHCI has a couple of disadvantages, though (and some o

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >One note for the archives, if you are presented a choice between a OHCI > >or a UHCI controller, go for the OHCI. It has a "cleaner" interface, > >handles more of the logic in the silicon, and due to this provides > >faster transfers. > > I'd disagree. UHCI has tons of advantages, not t

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:25:50PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: >> Here is lspci output from the laptop in question. Is this not UHCI? > >Yes it is. Just a bit funny if you think about it, but with Intel and >Via putting the UHCI cor

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:25:50PM -0800, Ben Ford wrote: > Here is lspci output from the laptop in question. Is this not UHCI? Yes it is. Just a bit funny if you think about it, but with Intel and Via putting the UHCI core into their chipsets I guess it makes sense. One note for the archives,

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread Ben Ford
Here is lspci output from the laptop in question. Is this not UHCI? [ben@Juanita ben]$ /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporati

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:27:19PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > > > > The second issue is usb. I now have two machines that lockup on boot in USB. > > One is the above workstation, the second is a Compaq laptop. Unfortunately > > I have no way of unplugging the USB hardware ins

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:27:19PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > > The second issue is usb. I now have two machines that lockup on boot in USB. > One is the above workstation, the second is a Compaq laptop. Unfortunately > I have no way of unplugging the USB hardware inside the laptop :P Can't yo

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread David Ford
> > The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very > > difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself [...] > It could be that -test5 and -test6 break some assumption kdb makes. > It has been eminently stable here. Whether or not the assumptio

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:49 + (GMT), Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very >difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself >goes mad) but when there is no kdb there is very little useful

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:00:49 + (GMT), Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very >difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself >goes mad) but when there is no kdb there is very little useful

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi, > > The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very > difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself > goes mad) but when t

test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-17 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi, The mysterious lockups in test11-pre5 continue in test11-pre6. It is very difficult because the lockups appear to be kdb-specific (and kdb itself goes mad) but when there is no kdb there is very little useful information one can extract from a dead system... I will start removing kernel subs