Re: No dma_sync_* during pci_probe? (Sparc, post 2.6.22 regression)

2007-12-17 Thread Chris Newport
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: It's a 100% reproducible oops on Sparc (with FireWire controller) for 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 kernels, but not 2.6.22. The reporter confirmed that the bug also happens How do you achieve a sparc system with firewire ? AFAIK there is no SBUS firewire card.

Re: possible endless loop in PROM initialization

2007-08-20 Thread Chris Newport
Markus Dahms wrote: Hello again, David Miller wrote: When we boot the firmware provides a vector of function pointers, and this is prom_nodeops. So prom_nodeops->no_nextprop() is a routine inside the PROM. Thanks. So there is no real chance to fix it but to override this function? T

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2

2007-05-25 Thread Chris Newport
Sorry, I did not make myself clear. Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007, Chris Newport wrote: Maybe we should take a hint from Solaris. No. Solaris is shit. They make their decisions based on "we control the hardware" kind of setup. Not really a Solaris featur

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2

2007-05-25 Thread Chris Newport
Ingo Molnar wrote: A BUG_ON() has a (much) lower likelyhood of being reported back - for most users it is a "X just hung hard, there was nothing in the syslog, i had to switch back to the older kernel" experience, and they do not have a serial console to hook up (newer hardware often doesnt ev