want tool to open RPM package on Window 95

2000-10-10 Thread lixinabc
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Re: cs46xx only works as a module - only outputs sound when pcm/dspis in use.

2000-10-10 Thread Dan Aloni
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, David Ford wrote: > 1) cs46xx only works as a module. Even when it is compiled into the > kernel, I can still load the cs46xx module..which will work. When > compiled in, it shows zero indication of actually being in there, no > boot messages etc. It would be very helpful

SB Live not working under 2.4.0-test9?

2000-10-10 Thread Joel Beach
Hi, After compiling the kernel three times, I can't get my SB live to work under 2.4.0-test9. It doesn't want to work either as a module or compiled in to the kernel. It's working fine under 2.2.17. All my programs seem to think that the driver is loaded and working fine - I get the correct

Re: getting "struct pci_dev" from "struct netdevice"

2000-10-10 Thread aprasad
>> >> Since struct pci_dev is probably going to morph into a more generic >> struct hw_dev, maybe struct netdevice needs a pci_dev member... > alan cox wrote: >There is no guarantee there would be a meaningful pci_dev. In addition in >a hot pluggable box the pointer is useless since it will

Re: info on Oops

2000-10-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:40:49 -0500, "Jerry Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a good primer on reading an Oops? linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 10 Oct 2000, Gnea wrote: >> Please add this to your list. Linux is unusable in these machines. >> I have cc'ed Martin and Linus because they play in that PCI area. > >erm, looking at your list it says that you're using Redhat 7.0, which >is known to ship with a buggy gcc, which is KNOWN to

info on Oops

2000-10-10 Thread Jerry Kelley
Is there a good primer on reading an Oops? I'm also looking for general tips on configuring the kernel and my module so that a useful stack trace is generated - entry points show function names rather than addresses. The obvious is to build with debugging turned on but is it necessary for the

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-10 Thread Gnea
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:56:46 -0400 (EDT), jamal blurted forth: > > Ted, > > Please add this to your list. Linux is unusable in these machines. > I have cc'ed Martin and Linus because they play in that PCI area. erm, looking at your list it says that you're using Redhat 7.0, which is

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Wed, 11 Oct 2000 04:14:09 +0200 From: "Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:22:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > It is the only anoncvs available sorry. We'll have to work > out the performance problems with this site. What happened to

cs46xx only works as a module - only outputs sound when pcm/dsp is in use.

2000-10-10 Thread David Ford
Hrm, odd. 1) cs46xx only works as a module. Even when it is compiled into the kernel, I can still load the cs46xx module..which will work. When compiled in, it shows zero indication of actually being in there, no boot messages etc. 2) i have to play mp3s in the background to watch tv. tv

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > Yes. I am usually up to date on pre patches within a few hours of > their release, but then I have to play catch up to get my own patches > up to date. What I would like is the ability to see what is in the > kernel CVS tree before the pre patch is

Re: OOPS REPORT: Will someone _please_ look at this? (was Re: BUG & OOPS REPORT: /proc/scsi/ entries not properly cleaned up)

2000-10-10 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Matthew Dharm wrote: > > Yet more followup with myself I can reproduce this problem on > 2.4.0-test10-pre1 every time. I'm using the ide-scsi and usb-storage > modules to trigger the bug -- loading and then unloading either one causes > /proc/scsi to not be cleaned up properly. > > As yet,

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread davej
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Frank de Lange wrote: > Oops... looks like I was too quick to cry success... Argh! > It does NOT work, even with the patch. I tried it again and again, and > could not get it to boot. I probably put a wrong (Pentium MMX) kernel > on the flashdisk when I first tested your

[oops] 2.2.17 + ide + pcsnd

2000-10-10 Thread Paul
Dear All; First, I dont know if this is worth anything since I have andre's ide patch, and the pc speaker sound device patch applied. But here it is anyway. Got this oops applying a patch to a kernel tree. Patch was stuck in the D state. lsof showed it had open a tmp

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:27:36 -0700, Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:25:55PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: >> The ability to see checked in changes before Linus/Alan sends out a new >> kernel patch would be the only reason for me to even look at BK. >> Without the

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Larry McVoy
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:25:55PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:21:31 -0700, > Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If there is any amount of interest in this, I think we have a hack where > >we can repeatedly import a CVS repository and make it a BK repository. > >

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:21:31 -0700, Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If there is any amount of interest in this, I think we have a hack where >we can repeatedly import a CVS repository and make it a BK repository. The ability to see checked in changes before Linus/Alan sends out a new

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Larry McVoy
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:30:16PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: >From: David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:27:51 -0700 (PDT) > >you may want to check the bitkeeper site, I think I remember >hearing that they have a copy of the kernel they keep up to date. >

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:22:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: >From: Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:08:23 +1100 > >The mirror at samba.org is too slow > > It is the only anoncvs available sorry. We'll have to work > out the performance problems

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
From: David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:27:51 -0700 (PDT) you may want to check the bitkeeper site, I think I remember hearing that they have a copy of the kernel they keep up to date. No, he wants my live CVS tree which has all of my current Sparc and

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread David Lang
you may want to check the bitkeeper site, I think I remember hearing that they have a copy of the kernel they keep up to date. David Lang On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:22:49 -0700 > From: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
From: Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:08:23 +1100 The mirror at samba.org is too slow It is the only anoncvs available sorry. We'll have to work out the performance problems with this site. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe

Re: __bad_udelay in 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Horst von Brand
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 2.2.18pre15 defines udelay as (in file include/asm-i386/delay.h) : > > ... > > extern void __bad_udelay(void); > > ... > > #define udelay(n) (__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \ > ((n) > 2 ? __bad_udelay() : __const_udelay((n) * > 0x10c6ul)) :

Re: Segfaults using xawtv

2000-10-10 Thread Gnea
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:07:15 -0300, John Coppens blurted forth: > Hi... > > I _hate_ to do this, but I couldn't find (except for a reference to > "others who have segfaults using glibc") no reference to this problem. > Insmod of i2c, videodev and bttv succeed without problems or any

CVS for kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Keith Owens
What is the current state of the vger CVS tree? LKML FAQ points to ftp://vger.kernel.org/pub/linux/README.CVS which either gets connection refused or no route to host. The mirror at samba.org is too slow, to the extent that even doing a sync at 6AM local time gives up part way through. Trying

2.4.0-test10-pre1 + APIC,NMI Watchdog (latest) -- OOPS -- Unable to handle null pointer dereference

2000-10-10 Thread Miles Lane
ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.0-test10. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) agate login: Unable to handle null pointer dereference at virtual address

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.2.18pre11 > o Fix dead/clashing define for NFS(Trond Myklebust) > 2.2.18pre9 > o NFSv3 support and NFS updates (Trond Myklebust and co) 2.2.18pre15's NFS support looks strange to me. My menuconfig screen looks

Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-10 Thread Randy Dunlap
James Simmons wrote: > > Not needed. This is a misunderstanding. Maybe that needs > > some work (in Help maybe), but not this patch. > > Yes please. It can be very misleading. > > > Then if you select USB HID support, that builds the hid driver, > > which handles mice, keyboards, joysticks,

Re: new 3dfx framebuffer driver released

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
Another bug, fb_info_tdfx uses "unsigned long" for the "iobase" member, which is correct, but much code casts this value to a "u32" before using it which will break such I/O port accesses on Alpha and Sparc64 and perhaps other 64-bit platforms. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
Hi'all, Solved the problem with Winchip not booting. It turns out they do not like the code generated by gcc (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) when the -march=i686 flag is set. Changing this flag to -march=i586 makes to box boot like it should. I do not have a working egcs 1.1.x or gcc

Re: new 3dfx framebuffer driver released

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
From: Kesmarki Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:02:24 +0200 A made my latest release as a patch for 2.4.0-test9. It can be downloaded from http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx. I won't attach it, because it's too long. One bug spotted, in tdfxfb_probe(): +

Re: [OT] linux article with kernel references

2000-10-10 Thread John Alvord
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 02:06:52 +0200 (MET DST), Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > >> > http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley15.html >> > >> > good article, several unfortunate truths within. >> >> Really, must be a wrong

Re: [OT] linux article with kernel references

2000-10-10 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley15.html > > > > good article, several unfortunate truths within. > > Really, must be a wrong URL you posted then 8) > > The average Linux kernel hacker right now is late 20's to early 30's

2.4.0test9 vm: disappointing streaming i/o under load

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
Hi, Finally got round to checking out 2.4.0test9. Unfortunately, 2.4.0test9 exhibits poor streaming i/o performance when under a bit of memory pressure. The test is this: boot with mem=32M, log onto GNOME and start xmms playing a big .wav ripped from a CD (this requires 100-200k read i/o per

[PATCH]: new 3dfx framebuffer driver released

2000-10-10 Thread Kesmarki Attila
Hi, A forgot to use the [PATCH] in the subject of my last mail, so I just send it again. Sorry. Bye, Attila -- Forwarded Message -- Hi Linus, I'm maintaining a more recent driver for 3dfx cards than that one in the kernel now. A made my latest release as a patch

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Ted Gervais
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Alan... The following errors are what I am getting with your pre-2.2.18pre15 release. Does this mean anything. It only concerns ONE of my two physical drives. I can take it out but it works fine with 2.2.17 ?? > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady

new 3dfx framebuffer driver released

2000-10-10 Thread Kesmarki Attila
Hi Linus, I'm maintaining a more recent driver for 3dfx cards than that one in the kernel now. A made my latest release as a patch for 2.4.0-test9. It can be downloaded from http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx. I won't attach it, because it's too long. Main changes: - voodoo5 support -

Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI resourcecollisions (fwd)

2000-10-10 Thread jamal
Ted, Please add this to your list. Linux is unusable in these machines. I have cc'ed Martin and Linus because they play in that PCI area. cheers, jamal -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 17:23:13 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
OK, some more info on the hang with the Winchip2A: it seems to hang in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c, function print_memory_map, on the first iteration of the loop. If I target to Pentium MMX and run it on the same (Win)chip, all's well. There's something wrong here, but it is not in that piece of

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: > ... > # IDE patch provides UDMA66 support, but is known to corrupt filesystems > # on a few systems, so is not applied by default. > Patch151: linux-2.2.16-ide-2805.patch > ... > # Dangerous IDE patch available but off by default > #%patch151 -p1 >

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > The 2.2 kernel we ship doesnt have the ide patches either so Im not suprised > it got upset 8) Ah yes you're correct. I saw the patch in the kernel SRPM but didn't look far enough to see: ... # IDE patch provides UDMA66 support, but is known to corrupt

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > Bad CRC is a cable error. That could be misconfiguration but could also be > crap cables It went away when I enabled PIIX4

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> > have the rules for testing if the driver/host/device register and report > > that all signals are valid and stable. > > Yes, I had some "interesting" modifications to a lot of my /usr when I > tried to activate UDMA4 under RH7.0 (I don't believe my hardware is > capable of UDMA4!) The 2.2

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the > transistion period of drive manufacturing. Turned that on, applied the patch. BTW, your patch seems to make the "Speed warnings" failure _more_ likely?? Still refuses to activate

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Bad CRC is a cable error. That could be misconfiguration but could also be crap cables - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: __bad_udelay in 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> 2.2.18pre15 defines udelay as (in file include/asm-i386/delay.h) : > extern void __bad_udelay(void); > > #define udelay(n) (__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \ > ((n) > 2 ? __bad_udelay() : __const_udelay((n) * > 0x10c6ul)) : \ > __udelay(n)) > > ... > It seems __bad_udelay is

Re: [OT] linux article with kernel references

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley15.html > > good article, several unfortunate truths within. Really, must be a wrong URL you posted then 8) The average Linux kernel hacker right now is late 20's to early 30's with a degree and working professionally on the kernel

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> It is not a configuration that I currently test. I am told it mostly > works, though some client drivers are not SMP safe. It is something > that should be fixed eventually, for sure, but given the number of > open issues with PCMCIA in 2.4, I don't think it is high on the list. > If you want

Is 2.4.0 ready for the AMD 760 MP dual Athlon chip set?

2000-10-10 Thread Dieter Nützel
Hello, AMD has rolled out the new AMD 760 MP dual Athlon chip set at the 2000 Microprocessor Forum. Here are the links: http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/20165.html http://www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/mpf/richheyepres.pdf Someone working on support for it? The chip set seems like the Alpha

Re: DProbes with LTT

2000-10-10 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Richard, Definitely a good idea. Enabling the programmer to specify the format of the custom data to be printed would be great. Having this in mind, this is why LTT has two events to enable custom tracing, the "New event" and the "custom event". Therefore, extending the definition of "New

Re: getting "struct pci_dev" from "struct netdevice"

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Since struct pci_dev is probably going to morph into a more generic > struct hw_dev, maybe struct netdevice needs a pci_dev member... There is no guarantee there would be a meaningful pci_dev. In addition in a hot pluggable box the pointer is useless since it will change arbitarily - To

Announce: modutils 2.3.18 is available

2000-10-10 Thread Keith Owens
ftp://ftp..kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3 patch-modutils-2.3.18.bz2 Patch from modutils 2.3.17 to 2.3.18 modutils-2.3.18.tar.bz2 Source tarball, includes RPM spec file modutils-2.3.18-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format modutils-2.3.18-1.i386.rpm Compiled

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:58:46PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > > > > > > before you argue endlessly about the "Right OOM Killer (TM)", I > > >

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the transistion period of drive manufacturing. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. > > > > However, the error

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Ok, I've narrowed it down to the changes to mtrr.c in test8 > Looks like the Cyrix III changes broke things. > Didn't something similar happen when these changes made it into > a 2.2.18pre ? Alan? 2.2.18pre12 or so had a bug with Winchip but its fixed in pre15 I believe, at least my winchip is

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt?

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> > Initializing CPU#0 > > You are using a SMP kernel on a `386 UP machine. That tends to make > these burps show up. It is harmless, though. It says this either way > > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > > Calibrating delay loop... 3.10 BogoMIPS > > This shows something I don't understand. Either

Re: getting "struct pci_dev" from "struct netdevice"

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Not directly, but pci_dev knows about netdevice, so you can scan the > pci_dev's > to find a match with the required netdevice. (Or do a similar match search > on base_addr) Not I suspect reliably. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. > > However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed > the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going > from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you fell to ATA33. You RHS 7.0 kernel does not have all

Re: 2.3.99 pre2 CBQ

2000-10-10 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:39:40PM -0500, Rameshbabu Prabagaran wrote: > Hi all > > Has anyone tried testing CBQ with 2.3.99 pre2 kernel. I tried to set up Why are you using an out-of-date development kernel? I don't understand this. Is there any particular reason to use something about half

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Actually, 2.0e3 did include one rather important fix which solved the Uh. Fix? This sounds like working around very broken devices to me, or are devices allowed to wreak havoc if sync negotiation is tried in spite of not being advertised in inquiry

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:10:48PM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > > Dave, > > > > This patch fixed the problems, for now. The system now boots OK, and seems to > > run OK (have not hit it very hard yet since it currently runs without a > > heatsink). Tnanks... > > > > Cheers//Frank Oops...

Re: Further info on CDR-writing problems under 2.2.16

2000-10-10 Thread Athanasius
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Athanasius wrote: >I'm on 2.2.17pre13 (not the latest I know, I need to sort out > compiling latest and a reboot), my Mitsumi CR-4804TE CD-R/RW drive seems > to work happily enough with xcdroast to write one disk, but then goes > into super sulk mode,

2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
Hi, Finally got around to trying out 2.4.0test9. I'm going to do some VM performance comparisons (incidentally because VM should be a carefully measured science not random cool idea of the day which we have seen too much of recently). Unfortunately, I can't start fair tests yet because UDMA3

Re: __bad_udelay in 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Marcus Sundberg
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2.2.18pre15 defines udelay as (in file include/asm-i386/delay.h) : > > ... > > extern void __bad_udelay(void); > > ... > > #define udelay(n) (__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \ > ((n) > 2 ? __bad_udelay() : __const_udelay((n) * > 0x10c6ul))

__bad_udelay in 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
2.2.18pre15 defines udelay as (in file include/asm-i386/delay.h) : ... extern void __bad_udelay(void); ... #define udelay(n) (__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \ ((n) > 2 ? __bad_udelay() : __const_udelay((n) * 0x10c6ul)) : \ __udelay(n)) ... It seems __bad_udelay is not

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > > > > before you argue endlessly about the "Right OOM Killer (TM)", I > > > did a small patch to allow replacing the OOM killer at runtime. > > > >

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2. Capable Of Corrupting Your FS/data > > * Non-atomic page-map operations can cause loss of dirty bit on >pages (sct, alan) Is anybody looking into fixing this bug ? > 9. To Do > > * mm->rss is modified in some places without

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: test [PATCH] new vgacon and vga16fb Part II

2000-10-10 Thread James Simmons
> And I suggest this addition (cfr. the other fbcon-*.c since 2.4.0-test5-pre5): Done. I have alot more big changes coming :-) - 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

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: test [PATCH] new vgacon and vga16fb Part II

2000-10-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: > Oops. Sorry folks. My patch was too big to be posted on the mailing > list. Uncompressed it is 63K. Here it is compressed. > > >Hi! > > > > This patch places code common to both vgacon and vga16fb into a common > >file (vga.c). The utlimate goal is to

2.3.99 pre2 CBQ

2000-10-10 Thread Rameshbabu Prabagaran
Hi all Has anyone tried testing CBQ with 2.3.99 pre2 kernel. I tried to set up CBQ on an ATM interface and was not able to notice any differentiation or treatment to packets even when I use 'bounded' with the tc commands. I tried to test it with a 2.2.10 kernel using ds-8 and appropriate tc,

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread David Hinds
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:08:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am one of those people that uses PCMCIA on an SMP machine, I also > use 2.4. Aside from the very occasional problem, I don't see any > locking issues. Is it possible to just leave it as is with a warning? I think the

Re: DProbes with LTT

2000-10-10 Thread richardj_moore
Karim, I've been back through an initial evaluation we did for LTT, back in May. One of the feature we highlighted we'd like to see was an ability to specify custom formatting templates. Our original OS/2 trace facility allowed the user to generate formatting templates which would specify

Re: kernel.org verification key updated

2000-10-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems that there was some mangling problems going on with the message I sent last night, so I wanted to try to re-send it with a proper signature this time... Hi everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know that we have changed the

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > > before you argue endlessly about the "Right OOM Killer (TM)", I > > did a small patch to allow replacing the OOM killer at runtime. > > > > So now you can stop arguing about the one and

vgaconsole driver SMP safe fix against linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-10-10 Thread Yong Chi
My first contribution to kernel =) Someone please look over this one carefully =) Thanks --- vgacon.c.bakTue Oct 10 13:50:09 2000 +++ vgacon.cTue Oct 10 14:48:06 2000 @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ * flashing on RHS of screen during heavy console scrolling . * Oct 1996, Paul

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:42:51PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > Btw, reading the ATA/ATAPI-6 specs I think UDMA66 should work on a > > > > setup where would be just one drive and a really short, 40-wire cable > > > > without problems as well. I've even seen systems shipped like that. > > > >

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Jordan
Sorry if you get multiple copies of this--I have tried sending twice already and have yet to see it on the kernel-list. Jordan Here are hdparms for all my devices-- `hdparm -i /dev/hda` IBM Deskstar 7200 RPM: /dev/hda: Model=IBM-DTLA-307075, FwRev=TXAOA50C, SerialNo=YS0YSF3Z455 Config={

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Miles Lane
Olaf Titz wrote: > > > > Still, it would be nice to recover that 4 MB when the system > > > doesn't have any memory left. > > Yup. The X server could give back the memory for some cases like the > > background without too much hackery. > > Then Linux only needs to implement SIGDANGER, which has

OOPS REPORT: Will someone _please_ look at this? (was Re: BUG & OOPS REPORT: /proc/scsi/ entries not properly cleaned up)

2000-10-10 Thread Matthew Dharm
Yet more followup with myself I can reproduce this problem on 2.4.0-test10-pre1 every time. I'm using the ide-scsi and usb-storage modules to trigger the bug -- loading and then unloading either one causes /proc/scsi to not be cleaned up properly. As yet, nobody has indicated to me that

Re: BTTV/TDA card, msp34xx keeps trying to come up

2000-10-10 Thread Gerd Knorr
> bttv0: model: BT848A( *** UNKNOWN *** ) [autodetected] How about fixing this first? The card list knows about a few cards where it better should'nt load the msp3400 driver... > i2c-dev.o: Registered 'bt848 #0' as minor 0 > msp34xx: I/O error #1 (read 0x12/0x1e) > msp34xx: I/O error #2 (read

[OT] linux article with kernel references

2000-10-10 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley15.html good article, several unfortunate truths within. -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interrupt/Sleep deadlock

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ivan Passos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"You could use a semaphore for this. Initialize it to 0, then call >down() from the ioctl, and up() from the interrupt handler. If the >up() happens before the down(), the down() won't go to sleep." > >Initializing it to

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
James, The patch I referred to can be found in Dave's message... I gave him some feedback on the problems with Winchips... Cheers//Frank -- W ___ ## o o\/ Frank de Lange \ }# \| / \ ##---# _/ \ \

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread James Simmons
Either you forgot to attach the patch for it was bigger than 40K. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Frank de Lange wrote: > Dave, > > This patch fixed the problems, for now. The system now boots OK, and seems to > run OK (have not hit it very hard yet since it currently runs without a > heatsink).

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread mmangino
> > So I propose that this item be removed simply by stating "Linux 2.4 does > > not support PCMCIA on multiprocessors". Comments, David? > > There are some people who use PCMCIA on SMP desktop boxes; many > wireless network cards are only made as PCMCIA cards, and the "desktop > version"

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
Dave, This patch fixed the problems, for now. The system now boots OK, and seems to run OK (have not hit it very hard yet since it currently runs without a heatsink). Tnanks... Cheers//Frank -- W ___ ## o o\/ Frank de Lange \ }# \| /

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread David Hinds
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:04:22AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > * Misc locking problems > > + drivers/pcmcia/ds.c: ds_read & ds_write. SMP locks are > > missing, on UP the sleep_on() use is unsafe. > > It is my understanding that hen's teeth easily outnumber SMP

Re: kernel.org verification key updated

2000-10-10 Thread Walter Hofmann
I cannot verify this signature with gpg or pgp. gpg says gpg: invalid radix64 character 00 skipped gpg: Signature made Tue Oct 10 08:26:46 2000 MEST using DSA key ID 2BCBC621 gpg: BAD signature from "H. Peter Anvin (hpa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" Walter -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: Interrupt/Sleep deadlock

2000-10-10 Thread Ivan Passos
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Ivan Passos wrote: > > In order to get the configuration of a board, I have to send, from > userspace, an ioctl to the driver and wait for the board to complete its > action. The way this is implemented is as follows: > - In the ioctl, the driver sends a command to the

Re: {PATCH] Re: wasting time on page fault

2000-10-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The assembler doesn't use nops for alignment -- it inserts longer > > instructions that are effectively nops, either 1 or two. For larger > > stretches, the assembler inserts a jmp itself for alignment. > > Note that some of them are not very good no-ops. At least at

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > So if Netscape can "pump" 40 extra megabytes of memory out of X, this > can be exploited. > > Now we're back to the point that a heuristic can never be right all > the time.. I agree. In fact, we never left that. Nothing is perfect. In

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread lamont
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > it also might be good to have options to kill anything connected to a pty > > first, and to not kill anything attatched to the console. obviously these > > leave ways for admins to shoot themselves in the foot, but they could be > > useful. > > I

Re: {PATCH] Re: wasting time on page fault

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > The assembler doesn't use nops for alignment -- it inserts longer > instructions that are effectively nops, either 1 or two. For larger > stretches, the assembler inserts a jmp itself for alignment. Note that some of them are not very good no-ops.

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Linus Torvalds wrote: >> You can also still do the stack pointer plaything by just using >> indirection: and when you context switch you switch the pointer around at >> the base of the per-cpu interrupt stack. >

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:20:07PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Btw, reading the ATA/ATAPI-6 specs I think UDMA66 should work on a > > setup where would be just one drive and a really short, 40-wire cable > > without problems as well. I've even seen systems shipped like that. > > uh, what part

RAID setup

2000-10-10 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I want to setup RAID. I am working on kernel version 2.2.12. I am using RAID patches available. I create a RAID configuring file called /etc/raidtab #mkraid /dev/md0/*md0 is the device I am selecting*/ After this when I check /proc/mdstat , I find

[BUG] in check_asm.c on sun4m

2000-10-10 Thread Taco IJsselmuiden
Hi, While trying 2.4.0-test10-pre1 on my Sun4m SparcSystem600, i'm getting an error during 'make dep' ;(( I don't know anything about assembly, so there I can't help, but here's the output: galaxy:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4-0-test10-pre1# make dep make -C arch/sparc/kernel check_asm make[1]:

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-10 Thread Ishikawa
Kurt Garloff wrote: > Actually, 2.0e3 did include one rather important fix which solved the > trouble: Some devices get upset, when the driver tries to negotiate sync > (or wide) connections, but the device actually does not support it. > So, the driver now waits for the first INQUIRY result and

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > So now you can stop arguing about the one and only OOM killer, > > implement it, provide it as module and get back to the important > > stuff ;-) > > This is definately a cool toy for people who have doubts > that my OOM killer

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