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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread christophe barbe
On ven, 09 fév 2001 08:03:14 Mike Galbraith wrote: > I hope that nothing like this is _ever_ integrated (and doubt I need > be concerned;). IMHO, hiding output from users arrogantly assumes > that they are too stupid/ignorant to have any use for such information. Most user don't want to learn th

[UPDATE] zerocopy patch against 2.4.2-pre2

2001-02-09 Thread David S. Miller
As usual: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.2p2-1.diff.gz It's updated to be against the latest (2.4.2-pre2) and I've removed the non-zerocopy related fixes from the patch (because I've sent them under seperate cover to Linus). Enjoy. As usual, I am very seriousl

[preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clock detection

2001-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! I've decided that too much trouble has been caused by a wrong PCI clock specified to the IDE drivers (which in turn compute wrong IDE timings). I've made the VIA and AMD drivers detect the PCI clock automatically. Because this is a very significant change, I've upped the major release number

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2001-02-09 Thread Phillip Partridge
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Problem with linux-2.4.1, QLogic ISP 1020 and raid5

2001-02-09 Thread Tomi Sarvela
Hi, The problem is that I can't build raid5 array with 2.4.1. Stresstest shows that disks and SCSI card seem to work ok (fdisk, dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64k, mkfs.ext2 all are fine). Also, I can for example mirror two first disks of the array with raid1, mkfs it and everything is fine. Whe

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Helge Hafting
christophe barbe wrote: > Moreover there is no need to be ignorant. With LPP, messages are displayed during >the boot process and if something goes wrong an little picture inform you. And you >can switch to the classic console when you want (by a simple CTRL-ALT-F2). Interesting. Stuff that

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread David Lang
remember this will only affect those who use the frambuffer console anyway. I for one never use frambuffer for my servers so it won't affect the important machines anyway :-) and for the desktop market, the idea of a pretty logo with the details a keystroke away is not unreasonable David Lang

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-09 Thread Thomas Zehetbauer
> Since egcs-1.1.2 and gcc 2.95 miscompile the kernel strstr code dont forget > to stop those being used as well. Oh look you'll need CVS gcc to build the > kernel... ah but wait that misbuilds DAC960.c... How did you come to the conclusion that egcs-1.1.2 miscompiles the kernel? I am using gcc ve

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, christophe barbe wrote: > On ven, 09 fév 2001 08:03:14 Mike Galbraith wrote: > > I hope that nothing like this is _ever_ integrated (and doubt I need > > be concerned;). IMHO, hiding output from users arrogantly assumes > > that they are too stupid/ignorant to have any use fo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Miles Lane
Helge Hafting wrote: > christophe barbe wrote: > > >> Moreover there is no need to be ignorant. With LPP, messages are displayed during >the boot process and if something goes wrong an little picture inform you. And you >can switch to the classic console when you want (by a simple CTRL-ALT-F2

Re: block size for quotas?

2001-02-09 Thread Jan Kara
Hello. >I maintain quotatool, a command-line quota utility. > Right now, I'm using BLOCK_SIZE -- defined in > -- to convert between blocks and bytes. > I'd like to not use the linux header files at all for > this, but how else can I find the info? In current kernel there's no constant sp

Re: ARP out the wrong interface

2001-02-09 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, dean gaudet wrote: > responses come back from both eth0 and eth1, listing each of their > respective MAC addresses... it's essentially a race condition at this > point as to whether i'll get the right MAC address. ("right" means > the MAC for server:eth1). 2.2.18 and 2.4 ap

2.4.2-pre2 -- vesafb gives broken virtual terminals.

2001-02-09 Thread Miles Lane
I just gave 2.4.2-pre2 a spin on my laptop. This machine has a Neomagic MagicGraph 128XD (2160) video chip. My .config included: # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # # Frame-buffer support # CO

Panic from 2.4.2-pre2 kernel - output #1

2001-02-09 Thread Stephen Carr
Dear All As requested here is the output from a panic while doing a backup - At the time of the panic the system was not doing a network backup but the host system. I am going to attempt a few more backups as the panics tend to vary. Also I have had the system lock up hard with no panic mess

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
> It's amusing that a full receive copy is added without any concern, in > the same discussion where zero-copy transmit is treated as a holy grail! For non routing paths its virtually free because the DMA forced the lines from cache anyway. Basically its a deficiency in the chipset. We don't supp

Re: Panic in 2.2.2-pre2 SMP several panics

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
> Panics below for 2.4.2-pre2 kernel. > > The error I have got is spkput:over: d0826d4b put:1514 dev:eth0 > kernel BUG at skbuff.c:93 using the e100 driver Replace the e100 driver with the standard eepro100 driver we ship with the kernel. You might also want to try 2.4.1-ac9 once it appears wit

Panic from 2.4.2-pre2 kernel - output #2

2001-02-09 Thread Stephen Carr
Dear All Another panic - not the same cause Regards Stephen Carr - Welcome to Linux 2.4.2-pre2. elizabeth login: sgcarr Password: Linux 2.4.2-pre2. Last login: Fri Feb 9 21:05:18 +1030 2001 on ttyp0 from lise. No mail. elizabeth.[~] sudo -s Password: elizabeth.

Kernel panics on C1VN and RH 6.2 or 7.0

2001-02-09 Thread Patrick . Stickler
Hi, I'm trying to install RH Linux on my C1VN and am getting some strange behavior that doesn't correspond to any of the various HOWTO's etc. on putting Linux on the C1VN. I'm wondering if the amount of RAM matters (I have 192MB, the others all seem to have 128MB) or maybe I have one of the br

RE: Kernel panics on C1VN and RH 6.2 or 7.0

2001-02-09 Thread Patrick . Stickler
The BIOS settings don't seem to offer that option. Is it possible to tell the kernel where that hole is via a bootprompt argument? Thanks, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ext Augustin Vidovic To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/9/01 1:18 PM Subject: Re: Kernel panics on

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-09 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Both drivers want Matrox's HALlib. (Which is x86 binary only.) Matrox > will not release the info on that interface to the chipset. (Using > the standard corporate excuse whenever they don't want to do something > "Intelectual Property concerns".) > Good luck on getti

RE: Kernel panics on C1VN and RH 6.2 or 7.0

2001-02-09 Thread Patrick . Stickler
I'll try, though since the system locks up in an unbootable state and most of the message scrolls off the screen and is unretrievable, it is difficult. Patrick -Original Message- From: ext Walter Hofmann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/9/01 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Kernel panics on C1VN and

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-09 Thread Martin Dalecki
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > > > > You need aio_open. > > > > Could you explain this? > > > > > > If the server is sending many small files, disk spends huge > > > amount time walking directory tree and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Werner Almesberger
Miles Lane wrote: > Since, as Christophe mentions, the boot messages would > still be accessible via CTRL-ALT-F2, I don't see what > the problem is with at least making this an option. Except if some initialization hangs your machine so badly that it even won't respond to Ctrl-Alt-F2. This coul

RE: Kernel panics on C1VN and RH 6.2 or 7.0

2001-02-09 Thread Patrick . Stickler
The serial capture approach is tough, as it has no serial port, only USB, etc. (Sony calls it a "legacy free" machine, and presumes that's a good thing ;-) The second approach sounds more feasible. Forgive the ignorant question: how do I lookup the faulting address in the System.map file of my

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Miles Lane
Werner Almesberger wrote: > Miles Lane wrote: > >> Since, as Christophe mentions, the boot messages would >> still be accessible via CTRL-ALT-F2, I don't see what >> the problem is with at least making this an option. > > > Except if some initialization hangs your machine so badly that it eve

Re: epic100 in current -ac kernels

2001-02-09 Thread Francois Romieu
ARND BERGMANN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Francois Romieu wrote: > > > > > > > Working epic100 drivers: > > > - 2.4.0 > > > - 2.4.0-ac9 > > > > Could you give a look at ac12 (fine here) ? > > > No, does not work, same problem. The modifications between ac9 and ac12 com

Re: [PATCH] Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection o

2001-02-09 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > (I had a theory about inspecting the APIC_LVTPC "Delivery Status" > field, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to get set if a counter > overflowed while LVTPC was masked. Perhaps it's because NMIs are > edge-triggered.) The delivery status bit gets

Re: [PATCH] Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection o

2001-02-09 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Unfortunately both these ways needs intimate knowledge of how UP NMI > watchdog works in each kernel, and it is incompatible with other > perfctr uses. Probably I'll switch perfctr delivery to some real > maskable interrupt while VMware VM owns CPU - if

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Werner Almesberger
Miles Lane wrote: > I suppose perhaps an even more useful tweak to the this > idea would be that if the user holds down a special key > during the start of boot, the whole prettyfication stuff > isn't used and the VT number 1 gets all the boot messages. Hmm, this adds a lot of steps between the f

Kernel Routing Table

2001-02-09 Thread harmandeep ahuja
Hi, Can somebody guide me about the > signal that kernel throws when the kernel routing table changes /gets updated < Harman Ahuja - 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

2.4.1-ac8 build glitch

2001-02-09 Thread Greg Louis
To get 2.4.1-ac8 to build with newly-installed binutils-2.10.1.0.7, I had to do this to the Makefile in arch/i386/boot: --- Makefile~ Mon Dec 20 17:43:39 1999 +++ MakefileFri Feb 9 07:21:42 2001 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) -o $@ $< -I$(TOPDIR)/include bootsect: bo

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-09 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I just tested ac8. > > If I run this test, the system gets really slow. It takes about > a second between the time I press a key, and the time it appears > on the screen. The load goes way up. Everything seems to block. I'm sorry, but ... what test ?

Re: [PATCH] Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection o

2001-02-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 9 Feb 01 at 13:10, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > Unfortunately both these ways needs intimate knowledge of how UP NMI > > watchdog works in each kernel, and it is incompatible with other > > perfctr uses. Probably I'll switch perfctr delivery to so

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
> > the standard corporate excuse whenever they don't want to do something > > "Intelectual Property concerns".) If open source people knew how it worked they might do horrible evil things like TV-out with the macrovision turned off. Thats basically the root of all this - yet again its the US mov

Bonding driver

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Chabot
A few bugs still show up in the 2.4.x series with the bonding (drivers/net/bonding.c / bonding.0) driver. Ive tried all the below situations in both 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 (both clean/final versions), and on redhat's default 2.2.16enterprise kernel. the 2.2.16 kernel doesnt have any of the bugs described

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-09 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > If open source people knew how it worked they might do horrible evil > things like TV-out with the macrovision turned off. Thats basically > the root of all this - yet again its the US movie industry Er... have you tried recording from the G400 TV out with matroxfb?

Re: BUG in 2.4.1 (dcache.c)

2001-02-09 Thread bart11
Hi, I have then same problem no my box, Pentium2 233 64 meg ram RedHat 7.0 and Linux 2.4.1 Very strange BaRT > Hi all, > After 1 day of running, 2.4.1 produced 'kernel BUG at dcache.c:134!' and > Oops > during regular RedHat cron job > (tmpwatch + slocate): > Feb 1 04:27:21 cs865114-a kernel:

Re: paging question

2001-02-09 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Daniel Stodden wrote: > i desperately hope this is not too stupid. Only if the hardware is so stupid that you need this ;) > i'm trying to write a driver which depends on giving pci devices > access to somewhat larger amounts of pysical memory. let's say, a > megabyte of con

2.4.1 oops at boot

2001-02-09 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I get this kernel panic on an Olivetti netstrada 7200. It happens also with 2.4.0. With 2.2.18 I can boot normally. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 003b c019dcab *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: ebx: f7f

IDE DVD ROM & 2.2.18 & UDMA = random freeze

2001-02-09 Thread Gabor Lenart
Hi, I've just bought a DVD ROM drive to do something with our player (mplayer), namely developing a css module for it. The problem is that after random time of massive usage of drive, my computer freeze. It's most likely to freeze when I'm copying large amount of data, but with only playing mp3 f

Re: IDE DVD ROM & 2.2.18 & UDMA = random freeze

2001-02-09 Thread Gábor Lénárt
Erghh ... Sorry I forgot to attach the mentioned piece of my log file. Fixed in this release of my mail ;-) -- --[ Gábor Lénárt ]---[ Vivendi Telecom Hungary ]-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- U have 8 bit comp or chip of them and it's unused or to be sold? Call me! ---[ +36 30 2270823 ]--

ctags

2001-02-09 Thread John Levon
On the system here, ctags is called ctags-exuberant. Against 2.4.1ac8 thanks john --- Makefile.oldFri Feb 9 14:24:29 2001 +++ MakefileFri Feb 9 14:06:08 2001 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ STRIP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip OBJCOPY= $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy OBJDUMP

Re: [PATCH] eepro100.c, kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Peter Lund
Alan Cox, Thu Feb 08 2001 - 02:42:52 EST: > > It's the printk that gets it wrong, although that's harmless. > > Intel's documentation states that the bug does NOT exist if the > > bits 0 and 1 in eeprom[3] are 1. Thus, the workaround is correct, > > the printk is wrong. > > So why does it fi

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clockdetection

2001-02-09 Thread Byron Stanoszek
> I've decided that too much trouble has been caused by a wrong PCI clock > specified to the IDE drivers (which in turn compute wrong IDE timings). > > I've made the VIA and AMD drivers detect the PCI clock automatically. > Because this is a very significant change, I've upped the major release >

Re: Panic in 2.2.2-pre2 SMP several panics

2001-02-09 Thread basiltiK
Hi all, I don't really now if my problem is related with this one, and I (unfortunetly) don't have any Oops output to show - sorry 'bout that. I'm even not sure this report will be helpful but... anyway I'm currently running Linux amethyste 2.4.1-ac2 #1 Mon Feb 5 20:38:39 CET 2001 i686 on a C

Re: paging question

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Daniel Stodden wrote: > hi. > > i desperately hope this is not too stupid. > > i'm trying to write a driver which depends on giving pci devices > access to somewhat larger amounts of pysical memory. let's say, a > megabyte of contiguous ram. Your unlikely to get 1 MB of contigous ram unless yo

Re: Panic in 2.2.2-pre2 SMP several panics

2001-02-09 Thread basiltiK
Mark Hahn wrote: >> I'm currently running Linux amethyste 2.4.1-ac2 #1 Mon Feb 5 20:38:39 > > > there are well-known problems on SW boards with most recent 2.4 kernels. What are these well-known problems? > > >>-Does the glibc version has an impact on the kernel' stability? > > > n

aironet4500_card (2.4.1-ac8), The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!

2001-02-09 Thread Ookhoi
Hi, When I insmod aironet4500_core and aironet4500_card, the last one disables the pci342 nic (the leds go out). root@tilde:~# uname -r 2.4.1-ac8 root@tilde:~# insmod aironet4500_core Using /lib/modules/2.4.1-ac8/kernel/drivers/net/aironet4500_core.o Warning: /lib/modules/2.4.1-ac8/kernel/driver

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clock detection

2001-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0500, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > I've decided that too much trouble has been caused by a wrong PCI clock > > specified to the IDE drivers (which in turn compute wrong IDE timings). > > > > I've made the VIA and AMD drivers detect the PCI clock automatically. >

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PC

2001-02-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 9 Feb 01 at 16:58, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Unfortunately the PCI speed measuring code needs help from the chipset > itself, so it isn't possible to implement in generic code. Maybe a > callback could be added to the chipset-specific drivers, though ... > > I do have some plans with ide-pci.c

ISA-PnP and Passing options to non-modules

2001-02-09 Thread Jonathan Morton
I have two questions: 1) ISA-PnP detection in the kernel doesn't work properly on my Abit KT7 (the card in question is a SoundBlaster AWE64), but userspace ISA-PnP works fine... 2) I'm trying to pass options to the SoundBlaster driver using LILO - it's built into the kernel - but can't figure ou

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PC

2001-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:29:52PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Unfortunately the PCI speed measuring code needs help from the chipset > > itself, so it isn't possible to implement in generic code. Maybe a > > callback could be added to the chipset-specific drivers, though ... > > > > I do h

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Porter
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > christophe barbe wrote: > >> Moreover there is no need to be ignorant. With LPP, messages are displayed during >the boot process and if something goes wrong an little picture inform you. And you >can switch to the classic console w

2.4.1: unresolved symbol with nfsd as a module

2001-02-09 Thread Jean-Luc Fontaine
Please CC me. Platform: redhat 7.0 with kgcc. # insmod ./kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.o ./kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.o: unresolved symbol nfsd_linkage seems the code: #if defined(CONFIG_NFSD_MODULE) struct nfsd_linkage *nfsd_linkage = NULL; ... from filesystems.c did not get in, although: # fgrep nfsd Syste

Re: [PATCH] maestro3 still oopses?

2001-02-09 Thread Zach Brown
> The maestro3 driver, included in 2.4.2-pre2 (which I assume is the > same as maestro3-2.4-20010204.tar.gz, I haven't bothered to try it; > I'm perfectly happy w/ my patch), oopses upon shutdown. the maestro3 snapshot in 2.4.2pre2 is not up to date. I imagine it came from alan, who got the jan3

Re: [PATCH] maestro3 still oopses?

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
> the maestro3 snapshot in 2.4.2pre2 is not up to date. I imagine it came > from alan, who got the jan30 patch, but didn't get the trivial feb 04 > patch that fixes the oops you're seeing. -ac is up to date, its down to rate of feeding stuff to Linus issues - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Olsen
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > If open source people knew how it worked they might do horrible evil > > things like TV-out with the macrovision turned off. Thats basically > > the root of all this - yet again its the US movie industry > > Er... have yo

*** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta4 available at www.sistina.com

2001-02-09 Thread AJ Lewis
The following message is from Heinz Mauelshagen, who unfortunately cannot send it out himself today. Message follows -> Hi all, a tarball of the Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.9.1 beta4 is available now at

2.4.1 oops.

2001-02-09 Thread CHARLIE ROOT
One-line Summary: Denied services on the machine. Lack of responsiveness Detailed Summary: Server remained responsive but did not provide service. I was able to ping the machine and telnet to open ports but no data was sent back on these open ports. As far as current connections were concerned,

book review: Understanding the LINUX Kernel

2001-02-09 Thread David L. Nicol
Understanding the Linux Kernel Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati O'Reilly, 2000 Book web site (including a sample chapter) is here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ Developed and tested as lecture notes for university classes in which the 2.2 kernel was examined, the new O'Reil

Re: No sound on GA-7ZX (2.4.1-ac6, via audio)

2001-02-09 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Martin Braun wrote: > I can not get sound working on a computer with a Gigabyte > GA-7ZX mainboard (KT133 chipset). Is this a known problem? "Works for me" on 7ZXR, 2.2.18, ens1371 driver. R == additional Promise PDC20265R - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > The #ifdef ZEROCOPY code you added is a classic example of the kind of > > code I -remove- from the kernel tree. > > It's an issue of maintainer convenience vs. esthetics. And (last but not > least) it's also about other people's a

2.2.19pre9 Kernel panic aic7xxx

2001-02-09 Thread Mario Vanoni
1st correction in drivers/scsi/hosts.c (Shane Wegner), see lkml, otherwise does not compile. Hand written, may not be 100% correct: Detected CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 (scsi1) BRKADRINT error (0x4): Illegal Opcode in sequen

harmless trigraph warning in ac8

2001-02-09 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi. Building latest 2.4.1-ac8, I got the following warning (it is harlmess, but if you want to make the compiler cleanly silent...): gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-f rame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686

ACPI driver overhaul (was: Thermal monitor)

2001-02-09 Thread Grover, Andrew
Hi Dale, Thanks! Applied. I feel I must mention that while I (and you, and others) have been working on improving the current codebase, other people here have been working on a totally different design. In general, the new codebase has better ACPI functionality, is more modular, etc. My hope is

compiling 2.4.1 with binutils-2.10.1.0.7

2001-02-09 Thread Garst R. Reese
bbootsect.s:253 warning indirect lcall without * ld cannot open binary: no such file or directory binutils-2.10.0.33 works, but gives lots of similar warnings elsewhere. just a headsup. Garst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

[PATCH] drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c - 2.4.1-ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Francois Romieu
Dimitromanolakis Apostolos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] > Your patch had some problem in the maxiradio_radio_init function as > pci_register_driver returns the number of devices found and not 0 when > succesful. I fixed it and here is my patch against the original driver. Patch-o-the-month c

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I would prefer that zerocopy code remain out of all official kernels > until zerocopy itself is in said kernels. It's experimental code that > simply cannot work in its present form, due to lack of infrastructure in > the general kernel. And being based

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > BTW, I would suggest looking at Jes' acenic.c as an example of a 2.4 > > driver that is clean but also [hopefully!] works under 2.2. > > The *only* thing I couldn't solve cleanly is the MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT > vs MODULE_SET_OWNER

Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c - 2.4.1-ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Romieu wrote: > --- linux-2.4.1-ac8.orig/drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c Fri Feb 9 15:55:03 >2001 > +++ linux-2.4.1-ac8/drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c Fri Feb 9 15:56:55 >2001 > @@ -376,9 +376,7 @@ > > int __init maxiradio_radio_init(void) > { > - int coun

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > For 2.2, define SET_MODULE_OWNER to null. > > Define STAR_MOD_INC_USE_COUNT and STAR_MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT. For 2.4, > these are null. For 2.2, these point to MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT. ... and use both SET_MODULE_OWNER and STAR_MOD_*_USE_COUNT. It's along t

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion Badulescu wrote: > ... and use both SET_MODULE_OWNER and STAR_MOD_*_USE_COUNT. It's along the > lines of what I was thinking -- though I don't think it's very clean. It's about the best you can do, considering the 'no ifdefs in raw' axiom.. Better suggestions are certainly welcome. > And o

Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c - 2.4.1-ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Francois Romieu
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] > Patch looks ok. Further change: move pci_enable_device above the > request_region call. request_region calls pci_resource_start(), which > may not return a proper value if called before pci_enable_device. --- linux-2.4.1-ac8.orig/drivers/media/r

2.4.1ac3 vs 2.4.1ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Michael Merhej
Basic Machine configuration: SMP Supermicro board 2 gigabytes of ECC Registered ram Adaptec AIC-7892 eepro100 onboard nic The machine has been running as a database server with no MySQL crashes for several months and has run fine with kernels 2.2.18 and 2.4.1ac3. We have seen a HUGE improvement

booting the 2.4.1 linux kernel... tada,nada

2001-02-09 Thread Lindsey Simon
[1.] Once I get the loading the kernel message from Lilo I hard crash without any error messages. [2.] I had no trouble making the bzImage and have installed it made it and installed it three different times from scratch, once using debian's make-kpkg tool, but still I get the same outcome - a har

Re: booting the 2.4.1 linux kernel... tada,nada

2001-02-09 Thread Manfred Spraul
Lindsey Simon wrote: > > [1.] Once I get the loading the kernel message from Lilo I hard crash > without any error messages. > Could you double check that you've set the correct cpu type? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: booting the 2.4.1 linux kernel... tada,nada

2001-02-09 Thread Duncan Gauld
hi, a couple of things to check here. a) when compiling the kernel, did you remember to select the proper CPU in the kernel config? b) if you are using (for example) an ATI Rage 128 you need to go into character devices and say Y to DRI X and ATI Rage 128. (I found that the latter idea fixed the

Re: [PATCH] Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection o

2001-02-09 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Why do you need to mask NMI at all? > > Because of you must provide some function which handles NMI, and as > you cannot switch IDT and CR3 atomically together, NMI handler has > to be on same address in both address spaces - at least temporary.

Re: No sound on GA-7ZX (2.4.1-ac6, via audio)

2001-02-09 Thread braun
Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Martin Braun wrote: > > > I can not get sound working on a computer with a Gigabyte > > GA-7ZX mainboard (KT133 chipset). Is this a known problem? > > "Works for me" on 7ZXR, 2.2.18, ens1371 driver. R == additional Promise > PDC20265R Thanks for

problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Ashish Gupta
Hi, I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo for different CPUs. MHz bogomips version 233 intel 233 2.2.9, 2.0.36 166 intel 331 2.2.9

VIA DMA slowdown

2001-02-09 Thread Stephen Clark
Anybody else experience a DMA slowdown going from stock 2.4.1 to either 2.4.2pre2 or 2.4.1ac8. My hdparm -t numbers dropped from 15mb+ to around 10mb. Linux version 2.4.1-ac8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Fri Feb 9 15:41:34 EST 2001 BIOS-pr

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashish Gupta) writes: > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo > for different CPUs. You got your answer. Try pronounce bogomips and you will hear bogo like in bogus.

[RESOLVED]: kernel hangs on CD-R HP8100i if compiled w/ VIA IDE

2001-02-09 Thread Henryk Paluch
Hi folks! Shortly: kernel (2.2.x, 2.4.x) hangs on CD-R HP8100i, VIA KT133 chipset (w/ ATA100 support) if kernel is compiled with VIA IDE chipset support. Please, see my previous post from 21 Jan 2001 for full description. After little tweaking via82cxxx.c driver I found, that the cause is 'Pre

Comparatively minor problem with via ide.

2001-02-09 Thread Philip Langdale
Hi, I've just upgraded to an Athlon+KT133 from a P3+pro133 setup. For the old motherboard which had a 596b southbridge I got perfect udma66 support form my hard drives. After I switched over, and without changing anything except switching from p3 to athlon optimisations, the driver reports my dr

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Ashish Gupta wrote: > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo > for different CPUs. > In a nutshell, you can't! There is the requirement for some small delays when

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Brian Gerst
Ashish Gupta wrote: > > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo > for different CPUs. > > MHz bogomips version > 233 intel 233 2.2.9, 2.0.36 >

Re: No sound on GA-7ZX (2.4.1-ac6, via audio)

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin Braun wrote: > I can not get sound working on a computer with a Gigabyte > GA-7ZX mainboard (KT133 chipset). Is this a known problem? > I have attached some config info. Mail me for further details. Can you download and run via-audio-diag as described in the documentation? That will provi

Re: 2.2.19pre9 Kernel panic aic7xxx

2001-02-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Mario Vanoni wrote: > > 1st correction in drivers/scsi/hosts.c (Shane Wegner), > see lkml, otherwise does not compile. > > Hand written, may not be 100% correct: > > Detected CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 > (scsi1) BRKADRINT erro

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Manfred" == Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manfred> Ion Badulescu wrote: >> > > +#if defined(__ia64__) || defined(__alpha__) > > +#define >> PKT_SHOULD_COPY(pkt_len) 1 > > +#else > > +#define >> PKT_SHOULD_COPY(pkt_len) (pkt_len < rx_copybreak) > > +#endif > >> [snip] >> >> I

Re: [RESOLVED]: kernel hangs on CD-R HP8100i if compiled w/ VIA IDE

2001-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:18:05PM +0100, Henryk Paluch wrote: > Shortly: kernel (2.2.x, 2.4.x) hangs on CD-R HP8100i, VIA KT133 chipset > (w/ ATA100 support) if kernel is compiled with VIA IDE chipset support. > Please, see my previous post from 21 Jan 2001 for full description. > > After litt

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Donald Becker wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > * IA64 support (Jes) Oh, >> and this is completely bogus. This isn't a fix, it's a hack that >> covers up the real problem. >> >> The align-copy should *never* be requ

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Ion Badulescu
On 9 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Manfred> What about changing the default for rx_copybreak instead? > Manfred> Set it to 1536 on ia64 and Alpha, 0 for the rest. tulip and > Manfred> eepro100 use that aproach. > > Inefficient, my patch will make the unused code path disappear during > compil

Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.1-ac9 o Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre2 o Highmem bounce fixes(Ingo Molnar) o Fix cosa driver kfree (Jan Kasprzak) o Clean up pdoc202xx driver sleeps

Re: [PATCH] maestro3 still oopses?

2001-02-09 Thread dilinger
I'm running it now, looks good. :) On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:51:48AM -0500, Zach Brown wrote: > > > The maestro3 driver, included in 2.4.2-pre2 (which I assume is the > > same as maestro3-2.4-20010204.tar.gz, I haven't bothered to try it; > > I'm perfectly happy w/ my patch), oopses upon shutd

[beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page()

2001-02-09 Thread Manfred Spraul
I wrote a kernel patch that replaces the standard copy_page()/clear_page() functions on Pentium III and Pentium IV with SSE instructions. If you have access to a Pentium 4 it would be great if you could download the user space test apps from http://colorfullife.com/~manfred/sse/ and run them.

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Prasanna P Subash
the bogomips algorithm changed between kernels. Now it uses the tsc register. Your bogomips should typically be about 2*processor mhz. On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:35:05AM +0530, Ashish Gupta wrote: > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architecture

cli and timer/other interrupts

2001-02-09 Thread hiren_mehta
Hi on UP system, if we call cli(), then after that what all interrupts can occur ? Does the timer interrupt also get blocked when we call cli() ? I read that, cli() disables all non-maskable interrupts. Thanks -hiren - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: [beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page()

2001-02-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* use sse for normal memcopy. Then main advantage of sse over mmx is >that only the clobbered registers must be saved, not the full fpu state. > >* verify that the code doesn't break SSE enabled apps. >I checked a sse en

re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clock detection

2001-02-09 Thread Philip Langdale
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vojtech, I've tried out your new via driver and it appears to have solved the problem with the mis-detected ls-120 drive, but the ata66 drives are still being run at 33. More interestingly, the pci-clk calculat

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