Re: Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-10 Thread Peter Horton 

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:01:13PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I've noticed that -ac9 comes with the "Disable PCI-Master-Read-Caching
> > on VIA" patch that Peter Horton posted a while back. I don't know
> > whether it was applied in Linus' or your tree first, but is it
> > actually verified to fix anything?
> 
> Not yet. As the story becomes clear it can either be dropped or pushed
> on
> 

It should be dropped I think ...

Different folks found that changing different settings fixed it for
them, so it looks like some kind of internal race in the North bridge
where changing the timings in any way makes it harder to reproduce.

The updated BIOS from Asus definitely fixes it for me, and "PCI Master
Read Caching" is *enabled*. There are quite a few differences in the
setup of the North bridge from the previous BIOS to this one, and I
assume the changes were suggested by VIA.

If there are other people out there who still have this problem we can
probably come up with a patch for the kernel, but isolating which of the
settings are important would be a long job.

Shame VIA won't help :-(

P.
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Re: Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox 

> I've noticed that -ac9 comes with the "Disable PCI-Master-Read-Caching
> on VIA" patch that Peter Horton posted a while back. I don't know
> whether it was applied in Linus' or your tree first, but is it
> actually verified to fix anything?

Not yet. As the story becomes clear it can either be dropped or pushed
on

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Re: Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Udo A. Steinberg 

Hi,

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
> 
> 2.4.1-ac9
> o   Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre2

I've noticed that -ac9 comes with the "Disable PCI-Master-Read-Caching
on VIA" patch that Peter Horton posted a while back. I don't know
whether it was applied in Linus' or your tree first, but is it
actually verified to fix anything?

AFAIR Peter Horton later posted that it didn't fix a thing for him and
Petr Vandrovec tracked down his corruption issue to a Promise driver
problem. I see no corruption with Master-Read-Caching enabled here and
unless someone can verify that it really is the culprit, the patch
is probably completely redundant.

-Udo.
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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(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Final bits of NFS file handle changes   (Trond Myklebust)
o   Fix usbnet driver   (David Brownell)
o   ATM includes fixes  (Werner Almesberger)
o   Remove unneeded vm_enough_memory check  (Werner Almesberger)
o   Fix free_dma prototype case (Bill Nottingham)
o   Fix build bugs from pci_match_device fix(me)
o   HP5300 USB scanner driver   (Oliver Neukum,
 John Fremlin,
 Jeremy Hall)
o   DSP_SETFRAGMENT fixes for ymfpci(Pavel Roskin)
o   Fix codafs error returns(Rob Radez)
o   Fix 48 misspellings of interrupt(André Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 20 misspellings of successful   (André Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 11 misspellings of suppress (André Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 46 misspellings of address  (André Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 26 misspellings of receive  (André Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 7 misspellings of acquire   (André Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 4 misspellings of unneccessary  (André Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 13 misspellings of until(André Dahlqvist)

2.4.1-ac8
o   Fix irlap speed changes and kfrees  (Jean Tourrilhes)
o   Further NTFS updates(Anton Altaparmakov,
Yuri Per, Rob Radez)
o   Fix buglets in config.in for aic7xxx   (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o   Cleanup irda QoS code   (Jean Tourrilhes)
o   Fix mca documentations  (Rob Radez)
o   Fix irlan device attach problems(Dag Brattli)
o   Fix irda dongle crash case  (Dag Brattli)
o   Change Kaweth firmware loading, add DU-E10  (Eric Sandeen)
o   pci_enable cleanups for networking  (Jeff Garzik)
o   Fix rcpci45 probing (Jeff Garzik)
o   Use SET_MODULE_OWNER() in lanstreamer   (Jeff Garzik)
o   Use pcmcia defines as per seperate pcmcia net   (Jeff Garzik)
o   Fix people calling netif_start_queue from a (Jeff Garzik)
timeout
o   Remove 8129 driver (use 8139too)(Jeff Garzik)
o   Remove dead malloc.h from net drivers   (Jeff Garzik)
o   Update eata driver to 6.04  (Dario Ballabio)
o   Add DE320 support to ne2.c  (Alfred Arnold)
o   Kernel hacking doc updates  (John Levon)
o   Fix CPU detection offsets in head.S (Mikael Pettersson)
o   Fix apic init/cpu detect problems   (Mikael Pettersson)

2.4.1-ac7
o   Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM  (Rik van Riel)
| This should make things feel a lot faster especially
| on small boxes .. feedback to Rik
o   Silence osf syscall error printk(Ivan Kokshaysky)
o   Don't trust ARC irq routing on ruffian  (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o   Report the right module on 3c59x for pcmcia (Arjan van de Ven)
o   Update i82365 driver to add locks, delays, and  (Arjan van de Ven)
'bouncing' on the card detect
o   Get the name right on ide-cs (v ide_cs) and do  (Arjan van de Ven)
resource claims
o   Merge parport_cs(David Hinds)
o   Merge sedlbauer_cs  (Marcus Niemann)
o   Fix a bug in the Cyrix pirq routing (me)

2.4.1-ac6
o   Fix eepro100 reporting on lockup fix(Ion Badulescu)
o   Clean up i810 error message (me)
o   Fix S390 build bug  (me)
o   Update version id on cpqarray driver(Charles White)
o   Further aic7xxx fixes   (Doug Ledford)
| again please report aic7xxx stuff to Doug
o   Further maxiradio cleanups  (Dimitromanolakis Apostolos)
o   Change ide to use mdelay cleanly(Petr Vandrovec)
| Still broken for PROMISE if no IDE_CS
o   Fix duplicated ncpfs fix(Petr Vandrovec)
o   Improve inode hash function (Dave Miller)
o   Correct 62 misspellings of transferred  (Andre Dahlqvist)
o   Update AC97 codec setup and tables  (Jeff Garzik)

2.4.1-ac5
o   Fix zero page corruption

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(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Final bits of NFS file handle changes   (Trond Myklebust)
o   Fix usbnet driver   (David Brownell)
o   ATM includes fixes  (Werner Almesberger)
o   Remove unneeded vm_enough_memory check  (Werner Almesberger)
o   Fix free_dma prototype case (Bill Nottingham)
o   Fix build bugs from pci_match_device fix(me)
o   HP5300 USB scanner driver   (Oliver Neukum,
 John Fremlin,
 Jeremy Hall)
o   DSP_SETFRAGMENT fixes for ymfpci(Pavel Roskin)
o   Fix codafs error returns(Rob Radez)
o   Fix 48 misspellings of interrupt(Andr Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 20 misspellings of successful   (Andr Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 11 misspellings of suppress (Andr Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 46 misspellings of address  (Andr Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 26 misspellings of receive  (Andr Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 7 misspellings of acquire   (Andr Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 4 misspellings of unneccessary  (Andr Dahlqvist)
o   Fix 13 misspellings of until(Andr Dahlqvist)

2.4.1-ac8
o   Fix irlap speed changes and kfrees  (Jean Tourrilhes)
o   Further NTFS updates(Anton Altaparmakov,
Yuri Per, Rob Radez)
o   Fix buglets in config.in for aic7xxx   (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o   Cleanup irda QoS code   (Jean Tourrilhes)
o   Fix mca documentations  (Rob Radez)
o   Fix irlan device attach problems(Dag Brattli)
o   Fix irda dongle crash case  (Dag Brattli)
o   Change Kaweth firmware loading, add DU-E10  (Eric Sandeen)
o   pci_enable cleanups for networking  (Jeff Garzik)
o   Fix rcpci45 probing (Jeff Garzik)
o   Use SET_MODULE_OWNER() in lanstreamer   (Jeff Garzik)
o   Use pcmcia defines as per seperate pcmcia net   (Jeff Garzik)
o   Fix people calling netif_start_queue from a (Jeff Garzik)
timeout
o   Remove 8129 driver (use 8139too)(Jeff Garzik)
o   Remove dead malloc.h from net drivers   (Jeff Garzik)
o   Update eata driver to 6.04  (Dario Ballabio)
o   Add DE320 support to ne2.c  (Alfred Arnold)
o   Kernel hacking doc updates  (John Levon)
o   Fix CPU detection offsets in head.S (Mikael Pettersson)
o   Fix apic init/cpu detect problems   (Mikael Pettersson)

2.4.1-ac7
o   Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM  (Rik van Riel)
| This should make things feel a lot faster especially
| on small boxes .. feedback to Rik
o   Silence osf syscall error printk(Ivan Kokshaysky)
o   Don't trust ARC irq routing on ruffian  (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o   Report the right module on 3c59x for pcmcia (Arjan van de Ven)
o   Update i82365 driver to add locks, delays, and  (Arjan van de Ven)
'bouncing' on the card detect
o   Get the name right on ide-cs (v ide_cs) and do  (Arjan van de Ven)
resource claims
o   Merge parport_cs(David Hinds)
o   Merge sedlbauer_cs  (Marcus Niemann)
o   Fix a bug in the Cyrix pirq routing (me)

2.4.1-ac6
o   Fix eepro100 reporting on lockup fix(Ion Badulescu)
o   Clean up i810 error message (me)
o   Fix S390 build bug  (me)
o   Update version id on cpqarray driver(Charles White)
o   Further aic7xxx fixes   (Doug Ledford)
| again please report aic7xxx stuff to Doug
o   Further maxiradio cleanups  (Dimitromanolakis Apostolos)
o   Change ide to use mdelay cleanly(Petr Vandrovec)
| Still broken for PROMISE if no IDE_CS
o   Fix duplicated ncpfs fix(Petr Vandrovec)
o   Improve inode hash function (Dave Miller)
o   Correct 62 misspellings of transferred  (Andre Dahlqvist)
o   Update AC97 codec setup and tables  (Jeff Garzik)

2.4.1-ac5
o   Fix zero page corruption

Re: Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Udo A. Steinberg 

Hi,

Alan Cox wrote:
 
 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
 
 2.4.1-ac9
 o   Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre2

I've noticed that -ac9 comes with the "Disable PCI-Master-Read-Caching
on VIA" patch that Peter Horton posted a while back. I don't know
whether it was applied in Linus' or your tree first, but is it
actually verified to fix anything?

AFAIR Peter Horton later posted that it didn't fix a thing for him and
Petr Vandrovec tracked down his corruption issue to a Promise driver
problem. I see no corruption with Master-Read-Caching enabled here and
unless someone can verify that it really is the culprit, the patch
is probably completely redundant.

-Udo.
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Re: Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox 

 I've noticed that -ac9 comes with the "Disable PCI-Master-Read-Caching
 on VIA" patch that Peter Horton posted a while back. I don't know
 whether it was applied in Linus' or your tree first, but is it
 actually verified to fix anything?

Not yet. As the story becomes clear it can either be dropped or pushed
on

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