Re: [PATCH] guard mm-rss with page_table_lock (241p11)

2001-01-30 Thread David Howells
... + spin_lock(mm-page_table_lock); mm-rss++; + spin_unlock(mm-page_table_lock); ... Would it not be better to use some sort of atomic add/subtract/clear operation rather than a spinlock? (Which would also give you fewer atomic memory access cycles). David - To unsubscribe

Re: *massive* slowdowns on 2.4.1-pre1[1|2]

2001-01-30 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On 29 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: You have to realize that stability takes precedence over EVERYTHING. Linus At least with Linux, if something is *slow*, it generally works *perfect* or damn near close to it. I'll take that; over Microsoft's being slow AND buggy AND

Re: [PATCH] guard mm-rss with page_table_lock (241p11)

2001-01-30 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:18:56AM +, David Howells wrote: ... + spin_lock(mm-page_table_lock); mm-rss++; + spin_unlock(mm-page_table_lock); ... Would it not be better to use some sort of atomic add/subtract/clear operation rather than a spinlock? (Which would also give

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-30 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On 29 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail. However, I think that's unfair to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance. I would also keep in mind, that Microsoft

Re: Multiplexing mouse input

2001-01-30 Thread Ben Ford
You are probably talking about an Xfree issue. And yes it can be done. I know several people that do that. Refer to the XFree86 website. -b Dax Kelson wrote: My laptop has a touchpad builtin with two buttons, I also have an external PS2 and/or USB mouse (3 buttons with scroll wheel). I

Re: via82cxxx.c,v 3.17 + 2.2.18 errors

2001-01-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:49:16PM -0800, Tim Moore wrote: Is via82cxxx.c v3.17 a 2.4.x only patch or did I miss something else? Yes, it's currently 2.4.x only. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

file corruption on v2.2

2001-01-30 Thread Dejan Muhamedagic
Hello, I have got a reproducible file corruption with kernels from 2.2 series. Ftp-ing a 350MB file revealed the problem. md5sum produced a different checksum on the target host. In fact any write operation of a similar size will result in file corruption (i.e. the file written is not the same

Re: [PATCH] guard mm-rss with page_table_lock (241p11)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
David Howells writes: Would it not be better to use some sort of atomic add/subtract/clear operation rather than a spinlock? (Which would also give you fewer atomic memory access cycles). Please see older threads about this, it has been discussed to death already (hint: sizeof(atomic_t),

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: On 29 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail. However, I think that's unfair to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance. I would

[UPDATE] Fresh zerocopy patch on kernel.org

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
At the usual place: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1-1.diff.gz (As usual, please allow some minutes for the mirrors to get it) Changes since last installment: 1) Merge to 2.4.1 final. (me) 2) Accept TCP flags (ACK, URG, RST, etc.) for out of window packets

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-30 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: I don't know if that's true. The headers I've seen from hotmail users -- and Netcraft seem to agree -- indicate that they have migrated over to Win2K. I do understand this was a forced migration for non-technical reasons, and that they had quite

Re: [patch] Update of the VIA driver to version 3.20

2001-01-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:48:26AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: The current VIA driver in 2.4.0 is version 2.1e. I wouldn't push a new version, but VIA has released the vt82c686b chip and it's causing a lot of trouble. The 2.1e version can't recognize it from the vt82c686a, the only

[patch] Update of the VIA driver to version 3.20

2001-01-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! The current VIA driver in 2.4.0 is version 2.1e. I wouldn't push a new version, but VIA has released the vt82c686b chip and it's causing a lot of trouble. The 2.1e version can't recognize it from the vt82c686a, the only difference being the revision of the ISA bridge. This causes quite a

2.4.1-pre10 - 2.4.1 klogd at 100% CPU ; 2.4.0 OK

2001-01-30 Thread David Rees
I've been trying different 2.4.1-pre kernels trying to find one that doesn't end up with klogd pegging the CPU. 2.4.0 is OK, but 2.4.1-pre10 to 2.4.1 all leave klogd sitting at 100% CPU. The machine in question is a Gateway E-3200, a basic PIII-500 running RH 7.0 with all the latest updates

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-30 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Remember, most of you guys have been coding for years, or working on the kernel for years. Some of us don't have that level of expertise, are trying to get it, and feel like we're being told that information is a private domain we aren't allowed in to. Note that

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
Rusty Russell wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0005.3/0269.html A lot of the timer deletion races are hard to fix because of the deadlock problem. Hmmm... For 2.5, changing the timer interface to disallow

Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups

2001-01-30 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: I'm not totally convinced that this fixes all problems: No lockup, and but a slightly increased packet loss: every few minutes a block of 5-10 packets is lost. Cpu load is low (~30%), I'm running 3 concurrent bw_tcp, the io apic computer is the

2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-30 Thread Neale Banks
Hi Stephen, Looking more closely at a 2.2.18 bootup tonight I see that apm stuff appears in dmesg before dmi_scan does (I added "#define DUMP_DMI" in dmi_scan.c). If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan then there is potentially a problem with buggy BIOSen that oops

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:57:44PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote: What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels? AFAIK, swap requirements for applications running under a 2.4 kernel have not changed significantly from 2.2 kernels

Re: [UPDATE] Fresh zerocopy patch on kernel.org

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
Chris Wedgwood writes: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:33:34AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: 2) Accept TCP flags (ACK, URG, RST, etc.) for out of window packets if truncating the data to the window would make that packet valid. (Alexey) 3) Add SO_ACCEPTCONN, Unix

[BUG?] lost interrupt with 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-30 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi! With 2.4.1-pre10 I sometime get problems with my hda disk: kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } kernel: hda: DMA disabled Now I disable dma at

Re: 2.2.18: apm initialised before dmi_scan?

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:47:02 +1100 (EST), Neale Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking more closely at a 2.2.18 bootup tonight I see that apm stuff appears in dmesg before dmi_scan does (I added "#define DUMP_DMI" in dmi_scan.c). If this implies that apm is initialised *before* the dmi_scan

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
Andrew Morton writes: BTW: can you suggest why I'm not observing any change in NFS client efficiency? As in "filecopy speed" or "cpu usage while copying a file"? The current fragmentation code eliminates a full SKB allocation and data copy on the NFS file data receive path in the client,

2.4.0+ipchains+sparc 450= CRASH!

2001-01-30 Thread Javier Miguel Rodríguez (GUFO)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have read and applied /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/Documentation/Changes in this machine, but...it does not work Sun UltraSparc

Re: *massive* slowdowns on 2.4.1-pre1[1|2]

2001-01-30 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: Kernel 2.4.1-pre11 and pre12 are both massively slower than 2.4.0 on the same machine, compiled with the same options. The machine is a Athlon 900 on a KT133 chipset. The slowdown is noticealbe in all areas... this is known: Linus decreed that,

Re: Desk check of raid5.c patch from mtew@cds.duke.edu?

2001-01-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Quim K Holland wrote: I've been following the recent 2.4.1-pre series and am wondering why the following one-liner (obviously correct) patch has not been applied. [...] - return_ok = bh-b_reqnext; + return_fail = bh-b_reqnext; oops - i do

VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread Nicholas Knight
I have a Soyo K7VIA motherboard which uses VT82C686A, with an 800mhz Athlon CPU in it. So far I've never run a 2.3* or 2.4* kernel on it, I've only done that on my P3 using a propriatory micron motherboard that uses an intel BX2 chipset. However, I recently trashed my linux installation (doing

RTC hardware clock option

2001-01-30 Thread Antonio Miguel Trindade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just would like to ask all of you what has the option "RTC stores time in GMT" have to do with APM... The hardware clock in my machine stores time in GMT, but I do not want APM, so why do I have to have APM just to have that option enabled...

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-01-30 Thread bsuparna
Ben, This indeed looks neat and simple ! I'd avoided touching the wait queue structure as I suspected that you might already have something like this in place :-) and was hoping that you'd see this posting and comment. I agree entirely that it makes sense to have chaining of events built over

FW: 2.4.1 - ppc - compile problems

2001-01-30 Thread Micha 'CeFeK' Nazarewicz
[FAQ informations at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ are inaccurate -- wrong list address :-)] Hello, There appears to be undefined variable (in pmac_pci), called PCI_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_KL_USB. When anyone tries to compile the newest kernel on PPC machine with USB support on, there is an error saying

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c: No resource probing before pci_enable_device (241p11)

2001-01-30 Thread rakesh rakesh
hi List, What I can make out from the below statement is that its better to first enable the device and then allocate the resources for that.Since from the hot pluggable point of view if the device is not enabled ,then it does not mean anything to allocate the resources for it.It would be simply

no boot with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread Ryan Hairyes
Hello All, I compiled the 2.4 kernel on my laptop last night. After editing lilo, I rebooted the machine. I selected this new kernel and when it began to boot, it told me that it was uncompressing the kernel and that the kernel uncompression was ok. Then it just froze. Any ideas? Ryan - To

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
So you have not seen any corruption, but are willing to do testing. Very kind, but you could have choosen a better subject, I think. There are a lot more rumours that facts regarding the VIA drivers right now. /Tobias On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Nicholas Knight wrote: I have a Soyo K7VIA

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Micah Gorrell
I have been running 2.2 on many machines since its release and have updated to the latest version of 2.2 many times. All of these machines have an eepro100 and I never saw a single problem with any of them. I updated most of my machines to 2.4 over the course of a week and within a day of

RE: Multiplexing mouse input

2001-01-30 Thread Dunlap, Randy
The "USB Guide" section on HID devices could also be helpful to you. http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html ~Randy / 503-677-5408 ___ From: Ben Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] You are probably talking about an Xfree issue. And yes it

[OPPS] 2.2.18

2001-01-30 Thread James Stevenson
Hi got this opps the other day on a 2.2.18 kernel i will get more information if it is needed though i cannot remember what i was doing at the time ksymoops 0.7 on i686 2.2.18. Options used -v /home/mistral/data/kernels/P200/vmlinux (specified) -K (specified) -l /proc/modules

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tuesday 30 January 2001 08:14, Micah Gorrell wrote: I have been running 2.2 on many machines since its release and have updated to the latest version of 2.2 many times. All of these machines have an eepro100 and I never saw a single problem with any of them. I updated most of my machines

Re: Multiplexing mouse input

2001-01-30 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dax Kelson wrote: My laptop has a touchpad builtin with two buttons, I also have an external PS2 and/or USB mouse (3 buttons with scroll wheel). I would like to be able to use the touchpad, and then plug in the mouse (with either PS2 or USB connector) and use it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Todd wrote: Todd, I just got back some more numbers from Dolphin. The newer D330 LC3 chipsets are running at 667 MB/S Link speed, and on a Serverworks HE system, we are seeing 240 MB/S

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-30 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:11:27 + Note that this is _precisely_ the reason I'm advocating the removal of sleep_on(). When I was young and stupid (ok, "younger and stupider") I used sleep_on() in my code. I pondered briefly the

Re: klogd is acting strange with 2.4

2001-01-30 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:30:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: celeron 433 intel i810. 320MB ram. Before 2.2.18. Now I've tested with both 2.4.1-pre12 and 2.4.1. 2.4 kernel klogd is always using 99% cpu. What gives? I've three other less powerful boxes running 2.4.x kernels and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:32:08AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Todd wrote: Also, The numbers were more provided as a comparison between 2.2.x kernels and 2.4.X kernels with SCI. You

Re: Multiplexing mouse input

2001-01-30 Thread James Simmons
Is this possible with the new "Input Drivers" in the 2.4 kernel? Is it possible with Linux at all? Yes. For X do this: Section "Pointer" Protocol"ImPS/2" Device "/dev/input/mice" ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection - To unsubscribe

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Todd
jeff, On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On 32 bit PCI, the average we are seeing going userpace - userspace is 120-140 MB/S ranges in those systems that have a PCI bus with bridge chipsets that can support these data rates. That's 2 x G-Enet. good numbers. not really 2 x Gig-e,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:07:07AM -0700, Todd wrote: folx, On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: What numbers does G-Enet provide doing userspace - userspace transfers, and at what processor overhead? using stock 2.4 kernel and alteon acenic cards with stock firmware we're

Re: klogd is acting strange with 2.4

2001-01-30 Thread David Rees
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:53:59AM -0800, David Rees wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:30:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: celeron 433 intel i810. 320MB ram. Before 2.2.18. Now I've tested with both 2.4.1-pre12 and 2.4.1. 2.4 kernel klogd is always using 99% cpu. What gives?

digiboard support in linux

2001-01-30 Thread Kenneth Yeung
Hello all Can anyone tell me where I can find infomation on digiboard support in linux specifically the PC/X model? THanks -Ken - 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: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Micah Gorrell
I haven't tried 2.4.1 yet but I will be soon (prolly today) and I will let you know if I still see problems. Micah ___ The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world -Original Message- From: "Davide

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: [snip] I may have missed too much of the discussion, but I thought that the idea was that some people noted that their POST-code-cards don't really work all that well when Linux is running because Linux keeps on sending garbage to port 0x80. You

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:22:48PM +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Todd wrote: Sparc servers. The adapters these drivers I posted support are a bi-CMOS implementation of the SCI

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread alex
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:48:33AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: It has. We now leave dirty pages swapcached, which means that for certain workloads Linux 2.4 eats up much more swap space than Linux 2.2. Ah.. thanks for the clarification. Is this duplication "hard" or "soft"? i.e. under

Parallel zip-disk can't use EPP 32 bit with 2.4.x kernels

2001-01-30 Thread Davy Preuveneers
Since I'm running the 2.4.x kernels, I'm having a little problem with my parallel zip-disk. The ppa module can't use the EPP 32 protocol and uses the PS/2 protocol instead (which is much slower), as shown by the boot message of kernel 2.4.1: ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) ppa: Found

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: [snip] I may have missed too much of the discussion, but I thought that the idea was that some people noted that their POST-code-cards don't really work all that well when Linux is running because Linux

Re: no boot with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread Jon Anderson
After compiling 2.4 and 2.4ac11 I got failed boots as well, getting either LI or LIL And then nothing. This is a K6-2 450 machine, all previous (2.4.0-test*) kernels worked fine. The correct processor is selected... # CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-30 Thread mirabilos
[...] Now, we've found that small delays are reasonably well generated with an "outb" to 0x80. So, indeed changing that to something else is going to be tricky. So how bad would it be to give these people a place to leave the value that they want to have displayed, and have the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Dolphin PCI-SCI RPM Drivers 1.1-4 released

2001-01-30 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:22:48PM +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:19:58AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:41:21PM -0700, Todd wrote: Sparc servers. The adapters these drivers I posted support are a bi-CMOS implementation of the SCI

IBM encryption chip support?

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
Will this chip need any kernel support or will it just need to be supported in usermode? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2680013,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM encryption chip support?

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Miles Lane wrote: Will this chip need any kernel support or will it just need to be supported in usermode? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2680013,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest It looks like CPRM on the mainboard. Andre Hedrick Linux ATA

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very high on my list of things to do. 'anybody who says "disk is cheap" deserves to be

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, mirabilos wrote: [...] Now, we've found that small delays are reasonably well generated with an "outb" to 0x80. So, indeed changing that to something else is going to be tricky. So how bad would it be to give these people a place to leave the value that

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very high on my list of things to do.

Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT

2001-01-30 Thread mirabilos
- Original Message - From: "Richard B. Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "mirabilos" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Linux-Kernel ML" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Mark H. Wood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:36 PM Subject: Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT On Tue, 30

Secure Linux

2001-01-30 Thread Dale Amon
Has anyone else signed up on the NSA's secure Linux discussion list? The idea of NSA backing the development of a secure GPL'd linux is one I find intriguing. However I have only seen one posting. Is there anyone "real" involved with it? --

Re: Secure Linux

2001-01-30 Thread Alan Olsen
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dale Amon wrote: Has anyone else signed up on the NSA's secure Linux discussion list? The idea of NSA backing the development of a secure GPL'd linux is one I find intriguing. However I have only seen one posting. Is there anyone "real" involved with it? That would

Re: FW: 2.4.1 - ppc - compile problems

2001-01-30 Thread Tom Rini
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:32:33PM +0100, Micha? 'CeFeK' Nazarewicz wrote: There appears to be undefined variable (in pmac_pci), called PCI_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_KL_USB. When anyone tries to compile the newest kernel on PPC machine with USB support on, there is an error saying that this is

Disk is cheap?

2001-01-30 Thread mirabilos
Everyone who says, disk is cheap, ought to donate me one. Everyone who says, memory is cheap, has to send me some. I'm still stuck with a P-133, 56 MB RAM (60-70 ns, some EDO, some FPM) and not only Linux but also W2K on a 2.1 and a 0.8 GB HDD. I accept donations in IDE and SCSI, as well as

peek/poke question

2001-01-30 Thread Eli Carter
I'm being asked to read values from arbitrary locations on the PCI bus... but I need to do that without altering the kernel... is there a way to do that as root? From what I understand, /proc/kcore has only the physical RAM. TIA, Eli . "To the systems programmer, users and

Re: [Off-Topic?] Mixer device and controls (/dev/mixer)

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Chemko
I have not really looked into this but I think this option is only supported when the audio hardware supports bass and treble. "Michael B. Trausch" wrote: I have one small question about the Linux mixer device. I realize that the drivers (such as OSS and ALSA) have their own standards for

[CFT] Fix for the `getdents() cookie bug' in the 2.4.1 NFS client

2001-01-30 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi, I've set up a tentative fix for the problem we have against some NFS servers that use cookies that don't fit into 32-bits signed. So far reports have mainly involved IRIX servers (which use unsigned 64-bit cookies by default on NFSv3 and in particular use (~0) to signify end of directory)

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread alex
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:22:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: At the moment there is no way to reclaim the swap space if the page is shared, and for non-shared pages we haven't implemented a way to reclaim swap space. While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty trivial to do,

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
"Kevin" == Kevin Krieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin You mean my current 1.9 gig of swap is overkill? :) I have Kevin 256MB of RAM, and am currently not using any of the swap. Looks like you are a perfect candidate for testing shmfs[1] as /tmp, eh? [1] or vmfs or tmpfs or whatever it ends

Oops in 2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread MATSUSHIMA Akihiro
Hello. When I boot my system (Vine Linux 2.1), my system crashes. This oops is reproducable with the kernels: 2.4.0-ac11, 2.4.0-ac12 and 2.4.1(probably all = 2.4.0-ac). The decoded oops follows: - ksymoops 2.3.7 on i586 2.4.1. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms

Re: Parallel zip-disk can't use EPP 32 bit with 2.4.x kernels

2001-01-30 Thread Forever shall I be.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:17:28PM +0100, Davy Preuveneers wrote: Since I'm running the 2.4.x kernels, I'm having a little problem with my parallel zip-disk. The ppa module can't use the EPP 32 protocol and uses the PS/2 protocol instead (which is much slower), as shown by the boot message of

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:22:20PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: At the moment there is no way to reclaim the swap space if the page is shared, and for non-shared pages we haven't implemented a way to reclaim swap space. While reclaiming swap

Whither autofs4?

2001-01-30 Thread nbecker
What is the status of autofs4? There is no mention in 2.4.0/Doc/Changes. There doesn't seem to be any activity in the ftp.kernel.org/.../autofs area. Is autofs4 alive? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Important Suggestion

2001-01-30 Thread [MOc]mirabilos
Dear Hotmail Staff, as I will soon be unable to receive eMail from certain people, I strongly suggest exchanging the software of your Cisco fire- walls by a newer version _yet released_ by Cisco which is able to cope with ECN-connections instead of sending them RST. I do not speak only for me

Re: Ymfpci 724

2001-01-30 Thread Pete Zaitcev
From: Simon Cahuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 14:22:26 EST I have a ymfpci sound chip on my motherboard. I'm using ymfpci module. Under Q3A I get this: sound inilializations: Sorry but your soundcard can't do this Probably an mmap-ed sound problem or some ioctl is

[PATCH] 2.4.1 find_page_nolock fixes

2001-01-30 Thread Rik van Riel
Hi Linus, the patch below contains 3 small changes to mm/filemap.c: 1. replace the aging in __find_page_nolock() with setting PageReferenced(), otherwise a large number of small reads from (or writes to) a page can drive up the page age unfairly 2. remove the wakeup of kswapd from

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Actually what rumors are you hearing? Right now I can tell you from personal experience that the VIA VT82C686A chipset is causing kernel deaths, corrupted data on my drives, and UDMA issues (meaning that when I enable the UDMA support the kernel CONSISTENTLY crashes.) This is all pre

Fs benchmarks?

2001-01-30 Thread Z
Hi, On this list new version of XFS for Linux has just been announced. Reiserfs has been included into official kernel tree. My question is about benchmarks beetween XFS and rfs. XFS is said to a very flexible and fast journaling filesystem (well, at least by SGI ;-) and rfs seems to be cool

Megaraid updates for 2.4?

2001-01-30 Thread Douglas W. Marcey
Sorry if this question has been answered already, or if this is the wrong venue for it but I have done a lot of searching and haven't been able to find much. What is the status of the megaraid driver in 2.4.x? I am a little confused as to what versions are what so I will summarize what I know:

Re: How can I understand Linux Network implementation?

2001-01-30 Thread David L. Nicol
Donghui Wen wrote: I am hacking the implementation of linux2.4's networking (IPV4) . Can anyone give me some idea what material I should read to understand the data structures and algorithms. I have stevens's books which talked about BSD's implementation. Thanks! Donghui Print it

unresolved symbol in 2.4.1 depmod.

2001-01-30 Thread Jason Michaelson
Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build it. At the tail end of a make modules_install, the following error occurs: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/md/md.o depmod: name_to_kdev_t My first assumption was that this

[RFC] New Improved Stronger Whiter Timers (was: Kernel Janitor)

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rusty Russell wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0005.3/0269.html A lot of the timer deletion races are hard to fix because of the deadlock problem. Hmmm... For 2.5, changing the timer

Re: [PATCH] No VIA IDE DMA unless configured

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Clark
Guys, from .config on 2.4.1 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y Shouldn' t the value be CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO instead of CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO in the code below? Steve Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at

Wavelan IEEE driver

2001-01-30 Thread Eric Molitor
I updated the Wavelan IEEE driver from 2.3.50 so that it builds with 2.4.0 (The 2.3.50 patch is available at http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/ ) It works for me but I've heard there are issues with firmware 6.xx not initializing. The patch against 2.4.0 is at

Re: [PATCH] No VIA IDE DMA unless configured

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Stephen Clark wrote: Guys, from .config on 2.4.1 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y Shouldn' t the value be CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO instead of CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO in the code below? No

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread David Raufeisen
bash-2.04# dmesg | grep -i udma VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0:7.1 hda: 30015216 sectors (15368 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63, UDMA(66) hdb: 80041248 sectors (40981 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4982/255/63, UDMA(66) hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 192kB Cache, UDMA(33)

2.4.1 -- Unresolved symbols in radio-miropcm20.o

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-miropcm20.o depmod: aci_write_cmd depmod: aci_indexed_cmd depmod: aci_write_cmd_d - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: How can I understand Linux Network implementation?

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Chemko
Save yourself the headache. Despite the fact that it is based on the 2.2 network core, the Coriolis book Linux IP Stacks was a good book of source code to scip to parts of the code which was related to my interests. It may be a little different now, with the iptables rework, but besides that, it

PROBLEM: Bug in drivers/char/mem.c

2001-01-30 Thread Martin
[1.] Bug in drivers/char/mem.c [2.] An if statement (#if !defined) has apparently been left out of drivers/char/mem.c. This breaks the build on the m68k architecture. [3.] Kernel 2.4.1 [4.] Oops: Not applicable [6.] Try building a kernel on m68k. [7.] Env: not applicable. [7.1.] Software (add

Re: 2.2.19pre6/7: why can't I dump core?

2001-01-30 Thread Rafal Boni
Bernd wrote thusly: |In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: | I've done a quick inspection of pre7 patch set and noticed about the | same thing. Is this an oversight, did someone intentionally turn off | core dumping until some other widget is incorporated into the patches, | or none of the

Re: [RFC] New Improved Stronger Whiter Timers (was: Kernel Janitor)

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: This one is an UP and SMP race: spin_unlock_irq(timerlist_lock); + if (timer-event) + { + if ((requeue = timer-event(data))) + { + timer-expires += requeue; + internal_add_timer(timer); + } + } + else + timer-function(data); /*

[PATCH] Acorn SCSI loading

2001-01-30 Thread Torben Mathiasen
Hi, Just noticed the SCSI drivers for the ACORN bus weren't updated to the new initialization. AFAIK these drivers couldn't have been functional without this patch. Patch is against 2.4.1 -- Torben Mathiasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux ThunderLAN maintainer http://opensource.compaq.com

Crash using DRI with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Miguel Rodríguez Pérez
Hi, I have a Matrox G200 card installed on an Ali motherboard. Sometimes when I use any opengl program my box crashes. It is more likely that it will crash if I have used the xvideo extension or the matroxfb, but this is not a must, it simply increases the chance of a crash, which is very high

Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
Hi, Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has problems booting. The kernel is compiled with framebuffer support so is supposed to boot up with the Linux logo. Unfortunately the systems hangs when the kernel switches to the graphics mode. When I first boot into windoze and the

Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken. make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/arch/i386/boot' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/arch/i386/boot' scripts/mkdep init/*.c .depend scripts/mkdep `find

Re: Ruined boot sector on X20/W2K

2001-01-30 Thread I Lee Hetherington
If Mandrake used LILO to install, there very well might be a backup in /boot/boot.0800 or something like that. You might want to consult the LILO documentation and/or a net search to see if they say how to restore this (probably using dd). If you have real W2K media, it has boot floppies and a

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread tc lewis
try the latest driver that matrox provides. i had to do this with just a stock redhat 7.0 system. i don't think the standard kernel distributions redhat packages use a driver that knows about the 450 yet. http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/linux_04.cfm -tcl. On Tue, 30 Jan

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