Re: Part I of Lameness...

2001-05-29 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
> General bitching pisses me off, especially when you are dead wrong. A little maturity goes a long way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Part I of Lameness...

2001-05-29 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
General bitching pisses me off, especially when you are dead wrong. A little maturity goes a long way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

2001-05-04 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
> What still stands out is that exactly _zero_ people have reported the same > problem with non VIA chipset Athlons. This might be grasping at straws I remember VIA problem in the "good old days" of Socket 7 with CPU/PCI Prefetches and especially Read-around-Write settings that would cause

Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

2001-05-04 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
What still stands out is that exactly _zero_ people have reported the same problem with non VIA chipset Athlons. This might be grasping at straws I remember VIA problem in the good old days of Socket 7 with CPU/PCI Prefetches and especially Read-around-Write settings that would cause issues

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac22

2001-03-22 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
> o Fix ppp memory corruption (Kevin Buhr) > | Bizzarely enough a direct re-invention of a 1.2 ppp bug Could this explain my MPPP skb corruption I've reported since 2.3.x? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac22

2001-03-22 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
o Fix ppp memory corruption (Kevin Buhr) | Bizzarely enough a direct re-invention of a 1.2 ppp bug Could this explain my MPPP skb corruption I've reported since 2.3.x? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
> I suspect it's easier to just make the PCI layer call the probe function > in that order, instead of working around it in your driver. Jeff? Would 'pci=reverse' do the trick already? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
I suspect it's easier to just make the PCI layer call the probe function in that order, instead of working around it in your driver. Jeff? Would 'pci=reverse' do the trick already? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New version of the WRR network scheduler

2001-03-02 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
Umm.. where is it located? :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New version of the WRR network scheduler

2001-03-02 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
Umm.. where is it located? :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Since that time, about 1986, I learned that there is a whole cottage | industry of going through old, but not too old, patents and seeing how | they can be misconstrued to apply to current technology, buying the | patent for cheap, and then threatening "infringers". More or less | an extortion

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Since that time, about 1986, I learned that there is a whole cottage | industry of going through old, but not too old, patents and seeing how | they can be misconstrued to apply to current technology, buying the | patent for cheap, and then threatening "infringers". More or less | an extortion

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Since that time, about 1986, I learned that there is a whole cottage | industry of going through old, but not too old, patents and seeing how | they can be misconstrued to apply to current technology, buying the | patent for cheap, and then threatening "infringers". More or less | an extortion

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Since that time, about 1986, I learned that there is a whole cottage | industry of going through old, but not too old, patents and seeing how | they can be misconstrued to apply to current technology, buying the | patent for cheap, and then threatening "infringers". More or less | an extortion

Re: 2.4.0-test12: SiS pirq handling..

2001-01-29 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| > Problem still exists, diffed to last kernel: | Yes. But everything works for you, no? Including USB? Mmmhmm.. | The problem is that you have this routing table entry: | | 00:01 slot=00 0:62/1eb8 1:00/ 2:00/ 3:00/ | | which is really for the USB chip (PCI id 00:01.2), and which

Re: 2.4.0-test12: SiS pirq handling..

2001-01-29 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Could people that had problems with SiS interrupt handling before please | give 2.4.0-test12 a final whirl before I release it as 2.4.1? We got a lot | of pirq tables from people, and Martin Diehl put them together with the | hardware specs to come up with what looks to be the "final and

Re: 2.4.0-test12: SiS pirq handling..

2001-01-29 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Problem still exists, diffed to last kernel: | Yes. But everything works for you, no? Including USB? Mmmhmm.. | The problem is that you have this routing table entry: | | 00:01 slot=00 0:62/1eb8 1:00/ 2:00/ 3:00/ | | which is really for the USB chip (PCI id 00:01.2), and which

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results part 2)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Which one was it you got a PIRQ conflict for before? as it te device at | 00:01.00 with the strange "0x62" entry? Yes. | How about you try adding the line | pirq = (pirq-1) & 3; | at the top of both pirq_sis_get() and pirq_sis_set() (with my "alternate" | SiS routines). What happens then?

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results part 2)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Which one was it you got a PIRQ conflict for before? as it te device at | 00:01.00 with the strange "0x62" entry? Yes. | How about you try adding the line | pirq = (pirq-1) & 3; | at the top of both pirq_sis_get() and pirq_sis_set() (with my "alternate" | SiS routines). What happens then?

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Your "link" values are in the range 1-4. Which makes perfect sense, but | that's absolutely _not_ what the Linux SiS routing code expects (the code | seems to expect them to be ASCII 'A' - 'D'). | It looks very much like "pirq_sis_get()" and "pirq_sis_set()" in | arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c are

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Your "link" values are in the range 1-4. Which makes perfect sense, but | that's absolutely _not_ what the Linux SiS routing code expects (the code | seems to expect them to be ASCII 'A' - 'D'). | It looks very much like "pirq_sis_get()" and "pirq_sis_set()" in | arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c are

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Your "link" values are in the range 1-4. Which makes perfect sense, but | that's absolutely _not_ what the Linux SiS routing code expects (the code | seems to expect them to be ASCII 'A' - 'D'). | It looks very much like "pirq_sis_get()" and "pirq_sis_set()" in | arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c are

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Your "link" values are in the range 1-4. Which makes perfect sense, but | that's absolutely _not_ what the Linux SiS routing code expects (the code | seems to expect them to be ASCII 'A' - 'D'). | It looks very much like "pirq_sis_get()" and "pirq_sis_set()" in | arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c are

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results part 2)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Which one was it you got a PIRQ conflict for before? as it te device at | 00:01.00 with the strange "0x62" entry? Yes. | How about you try adding the line | pirq = (pirq-1) 3; | at the top of both pirq_sis_get() and pirq_sis_set() (with my "alternate" | SiS routines). What happens then?

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (SiS results part 2)

2001-01-28 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| Which one was it you got a PIRQ conflict for before? as it te device at | 00:01.00 with the strange "0x62" entry? Yes. | How about you try adding the line | pirq = (pirq-1) 3; | at the top of both pirq_sis_get() and pirq_sis_set() (with my "alternate" | SiS routines). What happens then?

Linux 2.4.0ac12 (ppp-generic)

2001-01-26 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| o Set last_rx on ppp_generic (Jeff Garzik) Is this related to my MPPP crashes or is this an unrelated fix? - 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.tux.org/lkml/

Linux 2.4.0ac12 (ppp-generic)

2001-01-26 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| o Set last_rx on ppp_generic (Jeff Garzik) Is this related to my MPPP crashes or is this an unrelated fix? - 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.tux.org/lkml/

[2.4.1-p10] Multilink PPP crash fix

2001-01-23 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
I took out my can of RAID and went bug hunting. The kernel was always crashing in this subroutine and the comment near the list walk clued me in. I've run this fixed kernel all night and can no longer make it OOPS from a racy list walk. It may be overkill to use ppp_lock instead of the finer

[2.4.1-p10] Multilink PPP crash fix

2001-01-23 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
I took out my can of RAID and went bug hunting. The kernel was always crashing in this subroutine and the comment near the list walk clued me in. I've run this fixed kernel all night and can no longer make it OOPS from a racy list walk. It may be overkill to use ppp_lock instead of the finer

[2.4.1-p8 More MPPP oops]

2001-01-20 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
Always the glutton for punishment, I did it again tonite. A different oops now. See my last message for prior info. ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.1-pre8. Options used -v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux (specified) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o

[2.4.1-p8 More MPPP oops]

2001-01-20 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
Always the glutton for punishment, I did it again tonite. A different oops now. See my last message for prior info. ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.1-pre8. Options used -v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux (specified) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o

[2.4.1-pre8] MPP related OPPS

2001-01-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
I reported this a few months ago without much details and the machine involved died shortly after which made me think that this oops was merely bad hardware. This is a brand new machine and the opps popped up again. Thankfully I armed myself with a serial console and captured this beast.

[2.4.1-pre8] MPP related OPPS

2001-01-18 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
I reported this a few months ago without much details and the machine involved died shortly after which made me think that this oops was merely bad hardware. This is a brand new machine and the opps popped up again. Thankfully I armed myself with a serial console and captured this beast.

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-10 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| 2.2.18-pre26 was compiled with gcc 2.91.66 (kgcc). | 2.4.0-test12-pre7 was compiled with gcc 2.95.3. That's your answer right there. GCC 2.95.3 compiles much slower than kgcc. Rerun the 2.4.0 with kgcc to be fair. :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH] PCI detection in 2.2.x and 2.4.0

2000-10-06 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
> By the way, does 2.2.x behave in the same way? No. 2.2.x and if I remember right, even 2.0.x all get it right. > I'm interested in lspci -vvx outputs for all the cases and also in effect > of "pci=bios", "pci=conf1" and "pci=conf2" switches. Will do. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] PCI detection in 2.2.x and 2.4.0

2000-10-06 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
> at the kernel command line. I admit it isn't a nice solution, but I > don't know any way which would be 100% reliable on all machines > and your machine is the only case I know about where the current > algorithm breaks. Me me me me. :) I have an odd situation.. in 2.4.x on my old P60, if I

Re: [PATCH] PCI detection in 2.2.x and 2.4.0

2000-10-06 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
at the kernel command line. I admit it isn't a nice solution, but I don't know any way which would be 100% reliable on all machines and your machine is the only case I know about where the current algorithm breaks. Me me me me. :) I have an odd situation.. in 2.4.x on my old P60, if I choose

Re: [PATCH] PCI detection in 2.2.x and 2.4.0

2000-10-06 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
By the way, does 2.2.x behave in the same way? No. 2.2.x and if I remember right, even 2.0.x all get it right. I'm interested in lspci -vvx outputs for all the cases and also in effect of "pci=bios", "pci=conf1" and "pci=conf2" switches. Will do. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [BUG] 2.2.17final crashed Update

2000-09-15 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| > It screams like a banshee when enabled. | yup. | How annoying but interesting. You'd think they'd mention it (ASUS). Do you have |this | website anywhere still? On my hard drive :) I will repost it soon, hopefully later tonite. Keep an eye out on http://www.mojomofo.com

Re: [BUG] 2.2.17final crashed Update

2000-09-15 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| > ASUS P5A with delayed transactions enabled? | Oh, you know this critter? I'm assuming disabling delayed transactions fixes the | speaker solos? I used to have a website dedicated to all the quirks that motherboard had. :) It's either delayed transactions or passive release that

Re: [BUG] 2.2.17final crashed Update

2000-09-15 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
| ASUS P5A with delayed transactions enabled? | Oh, you know this critter? I'm assuming disabling delayed transactions fixes the | speaker solos? I used to have a website dedicated to all the quirks that motherboard had. :) It's either delayed transactions or passive release that causes

[2.4.x] Pentium FPU memcpy

2000-09-13 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
The last version I've spotted was for mid-2.2 and was filled with gcc 2.7-isms in the assembler code. I was curious if anyone has updated this to version 2.4 at all because it makes all the difference in the world for me with my P60. Now that the memcpy stuff is somewhat modularized (with the

[2.4.x] Pentium FPU memcpy

2000-09-13 Thread Aaron Tiensivu
The last version I've spotted was for mid-2.2 and was filled with gcc 2.7-isms in the assembler code. I was curious if anyone has updated this to version 2.4 at all because it makes all the difference in the world for me with my P60. Now that the memcpy stuff is somewhat modularized (with the