Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-10 Thread Ben Bridgwater
Ben Bridgwater wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > Setting DEBUG to 1 in arch/i386/kernel/pci-i386.h gives you lots of > > info, including PIRQ debug data. > > I can try this tonite with 2.4.4 if this is going to be useful. > Well, I don't know how useful this is going to be, since the kernel

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> The only way a motherboard BIOS would know if the PCI BIOS used polling > methods instead of interrupt methods is if it was a built in device. For all Such as the motherboard IDE ? > for all bootable devices on the system, regardless of PnPOS settings. Name > one concrete example of a mother

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Alan Cox wrote: > > setup all possible boot devices, only devices non-essential to the boot > > process (sound cards, modems, crap like that) get left unconfigured. Not > > It only has to do minimal setup on them. If the BIOS calls are polled then > assigning an IRQ is quite optional The only

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> Which is what I said also in my last email. I'm more than happy to write this > off as a BIOS bug, and it is highly likely that the fact that Windows doesn't > see a problem is because of the exact test I mentioned above. The BIOS has to I very much doubt windows is using that test. > setup

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Andy Carlson
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Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > IRQ11 appearing on IRQ10 sounds exactly like the INTA-D line setting for IRQ > > > 11 is wrong and we connected it to IRQ 10 > > > > Which brings me back to my question in my previous email. Why are we > > remapping working configs again? I'm at a loss here. This isn't

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> > IRQ11 appearing on IRQ10 sounds exactly like the INTA-D line setting for IRQ > > 11 is wrong and we connected it to IRQ 10 > > Which brings me back to my question in my previous email. Why are we > remapping working configs again? I'm at a loss here. This isn't a hot plug > capably motherb

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> EXTREMELY unlikely. Under a 2.2 no-apic kernel, the aic7xxx card uses IRQ 11 > and works. Under a 2.2 ioapic kernel, it uses high interrupts and works. non SMP that is clueless ignorance mode, SMP that is MP table mode > situation. Specifically, if the eepro100 or e100 drivers are not load

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Alan Cox wrote: > The tables are then described by the $PIRQ table in the BIOS. We use that to > load the mapping registers in the PCI bridge (and also to read them). If the > tables are wrong then we will mismap interrupt INTA-D lines to IRQ lines. > > IRQ11 appearing on IRQ10 sounds exactly li

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Alan Cox wrote: > > > This has been reported to both Mandrake and Redhat: > > > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29555 > > > > I've been trying to find out if there's a fix (if it's aic7xxx 6.1.13 > > that's great!), but Redhat seem to believe it's a 2.4 kernel PCI bug: > >

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Alan Cox
> This has been reported to both Mandrake and Redhat: > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29555 > > I've been trying to find out if there's a fix (if it's aic7xxx 6.1.13 > that's great!), but Redhat seem to believe it's a 2.4 kernel PCI bug: Personally I still think its a BI

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Benedict Bridgwater
Justin Gibbs wrote: > >I have a dual ppro 200MHZ W6LI motherboard. I put 2.4.4-ac5 on last > >night, and the machine hung at Freeing unused Kernel memory. I > >selectively backed off what I thought were relevant patches. I got to > >aic7xxx, and ac5 without it worked. I attached /proc/scsi/aic

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-07 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>I have a dual ppro 200MHZ W6LI motherboard. I put 2.4.4-ac5 on last >night, and the machine hung at Freeing unused Kernel memory. I >selectively backed off what I thought were relevant patches. I got to >aic7xxx, and ac5 without it worked. I attached /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0. This problem was fix

RE: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-07 Thread Oyvind Jagtnes
disks in lvm. Oyvind Jagtnes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy Carlson Sent: 7. mai 2001 15:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine I have a dual ppro 200MHZ W6LI motherboard. I put 2.4.4-ac5 on

2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-07 Thread Andy Carlson
I have a dual ppro 200MHZ W6LI motherboard. I put 2.4.4-ac5 on last night, and the machine hung at Freeing unused Kernel memory. I selectively backed off what I thought were relevant patches. I got to aic7xxx, and ac5 without it worked. I attached /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0. Andy Carlson