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On Thu, 5 May 2005, Leif Sawyer wrote:
Was exploring the differences between -r6 and -r7 in terms of the sparc changes, and noticed that the recent sunsu patch didn't make it in.
the patch is from 4/20 by Dave Miller, and was reposted to G-S on 4/22 by Ferris. [re: Weird mouse behaviour]
I have put 2.6.11-r6 (+irq patch) onto one U60-SMP, and 2.6.11-r7 (+ irq patch) onto one U60-SMP, one U2-SMP. Weird mouse behavior is present on 33% of these systems (U60, 2.6.11-r7), which is an improvement from the 100% that I saw last fall. (Weird = must unplug to get it seen).
Also, what was the outcome of the kernel/irq.c patch (should_forward=0) ? Is that something that we should be testing more 'actively'?
In my opinion, yes. It might help and shouldn't hurt. So far, the systems are staying up, but I haven't really stress tested them beyond
some portage work and a run of the daily cron 'slocate' script.
Also, 'cvs -z0 up' for cvsroot/gentoo86 (the Gentoo cvs portage tree) ran
successfully on the U2 while at the same time a different system (SS20) was hitting it with distcc compilation requests.
Both the slocate and the 'cvs up' had been pretty reliable "killer apps" for the U2 when I was testing 2.6.6/7 kernels.
I don't know status of the fix-the-mouse-timing patch. I recommend that you try the (3 line change) irq.c patch. squash will have better information on that one, though.I only ask because I'm gearing up to build -r7 and test it out, but before I do, I wanted to verify these last couple of patches and apply or not, depending on their status.
Leif
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