Re: Athlon/VIA Kernel Experimentation (mmx.c)

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Doh. I feel like a moron. Thanks.. will do... --S Brian Gerst wrote: > > Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I implemented a small check loop at the end of the fast_page_copy > > routine in mmx.c for the Athlon. Booting the resulting kernel > > yields an interesting result. Every

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > I don't know whether it will (a) compile, or (b) work... I don't have an alpha > to play with. Neither (a) nor (b) ;-) Corrected asm-alpha/rwsem.h attached. Also small fix for lib/rwsem.c -- RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS-RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS

Re: dhcp problem with realtek 8139 clone with rh 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread Enrico Scholz
Michael K. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I have som problem with my realtek 8139 clone. It won't work with > >dhcp against my isp. [...] > > > >Determining IP configuration... Operation failed. > > This sounds more like pump failing to negotiate dhcp properly than > like a failure in

Re: dhcp problem with realtek 8139 clone with rh 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread Adam
"Michael K. Johnson" wrote: > > In linux-kernel, you wrote: > >I have som problem with my realtek 8139 clone. It won't work with dhcp > >against my isp. I've just installed redhat 7.1 on a i386 with to (exactly > >the same) network cards, one that should be connected to my isp, and one > >to >

2.4.4-ac4 - oops on unload "cdrom" module

2001-05-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! This oops happens when I run "rmmod cdrom" on a 2.4.4-ac4 kernel with CONFIG_SYSCTL enabled. It doesn't happen if CONFIG_SYSCTL is disabled. Full .config is here: http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/linux/config sr_mod isn't loaded at this point. Reference to sd_mod looks weird. After this

Re: Possible PCI subsystem bug in 2.4

2001-05-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are a couple of options here. > > 1) read the MTRRs unless the BIOS is braindead it will set up that area as > >write-back. At any rate we shouldn't ever try to allocate a pci region > >that is write-back cached. > > 'unless the BIOS is

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Todd Inglett wrote: > Ok, I've got this isolated. Here's the sequence of events: > > 1. Some process T (probably "top") opens /proc/N/stat. > 2. While holding tasklist_lock the proc code does a get_task_struct() > to add a ref count to the page. > 3. Process N exits. >

Re: smp_send_stop() and disable_local_APIC()

2001-05-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Matt D. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks like around 2.3.30 or so, someone added the call > disable_local_APIC() to smp_send_stop(). I'm not sure what the > intention was, but I'm getting some strange behavior as a result > based on some code I'm writing. > > Basically, I'm

Re: Linux syscall speed -- was X15 rootin-tootin webserver

2001-05-04 Thread Dan Mann
I followed the link and read the article. I am glad you sent the link. I am glad to see the Linux kernel doing so well. Does anyone else have any Linux Kernel benchmark related links that are interesting? Thank You, Dan - Original Message - From: "Michael Rothwell" <[EMAIL

Re: console=ttyS0 doesn't work 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Nick Papadonis
Solved. Disregard. I didn't have serial console support compiled in. Nick Papadonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I compiled the Linux kernel v2.4.4 and can't get 'console=ttyS0,115200 > console=tty0' to work. This appended line works fine when I boot > into my 2.2.x series kernel. > >

Re: Possible PCI subsystem bug in 2.4

2001-05-04 Thread Alan Cox
> There are a couple of options here. > 1) read the MTRRs unless the BIOS is braindead it will set up that area as >write-back. At any rate we shouldn't ever try to allocate a pci region >that is write-back cached. 'unless the BIOS is braindead'. Right. We only got into this problem

Re: Possible PCI subsystem bug in 2.4

2001-05-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I suspect it would be safe to round up to the next megabyte, possibly up > > to 64MB or so. But much more would make me nervous. > > Any suggestions? > > I'd go for 1MByte simply because I've not seen an EBDA/NVRAM area that large > stuck at the top of

Re: close()

2001-05-04 Thread Mike Harrold
> > > What kind of file was it close()ing? > - jim Ah, good question. I should have specified this. It is a socket that is being closed, not a regular file (the socket has nonblocking set). > p.s. Are you familiar with the strace(1) utility? It might help you get > more information the next

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-04 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:56:14PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Or you can rewrite block_read/write to use the page cache, in which case > you'd have more luck doing the above. once block_dev is in pagecache there will obviously be no-way to share cache between the block device and the filesystem,

modularized SYSENTER support

2001-05-04 Thread Andy Polyakov
Hi, Below is the comment section from my SYSENTER module. Code itself (~20K) can be found at the URL below. I want to point out that I'm not subscribed to the linux-kernel list and would appreciate if you drop me a CC when (or if:-) commenting. http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/sysenter.c

Re: dhcp problem with realtek 8139 clone with rh 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread Michael K. Johnson
In linux-kernel, you wrote: >I have som problem with my realtek 8139 clone. It won't work with dhcp >against my isp. I've just installed redhat 7.1 on a i386 with to (exactly >the same) network cards, one that should be connected to my isp, and one >to >the local network. My local network works

Re: Linux Cluster using shared scsi

2001-05-04 Thread Eddie Williams
Doug Ledford wrote: > > ... > > If told to hold a reservation, then resend your reservation request once every > 2 seconds (this actually has very minimal CPU/BUS usage and isn't as big a > deal as requesting a reservation every 2 seconds might sound). The first time > the reservation is

close()

2001-05-04 Thread Mike Harrold
Hi, We have a server which runs on a machine that now runs the new 2.4 kernel. Since upgrading we've seen periods where it seems to just hang for minutes at a time (anywhere form 5 minutes to an hour). I was finally able to get a core dump of the server during one of these periods and it appears

Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

2001-05-04 Thread Jonathan Lundell
At 12:30 AM -0700 2001-05-04, David S. Miller wrote: >Abramo Bagnara writes: > > it's perfectly fine to have: > > > > regs = (struct reg *) ioremap(addr, size); > > foo = readl((unsigned long)>bar); > > > >I don't see how one can find this valid compared to my preference of >just plain

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:15:28PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > However, there are 3 reasons why I prefer 16-bit counters: I assume you mean 32bit counter. (that gives max 2^16 sleepers) > a. "max user processes" ulimit is much lower than 64K anyway; the 2^16 limit is not a per-user limit

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Andreas Ferber
Hi, On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:43PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > For a read only case, the only important > thing is not to die, one occurrence of bad data is tolerable. Strong NACK. The pages where the bad data comes from may in some cases already be reclaimed for other data, probably

Re: [PATCH] strtok -> strsep (The Easy Cases)

2001-05-04 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <01050413055100.00907@golmepha> you write: > Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 02:57 schrieb Rusty Russell: > > There are two cases where the substitution is problematic: > > Yes, but... > > The cases which my patch modifies are of a different kind: The very first hunk of your patch is

expand_stack: small race

2001-05-04 Thread Manfred Spraul
expand_stack is only protected with down_read(_sem), and thus 2 thread could grow a vma at the same time. I think the spin_lock(_table_lock) should be moved up before the calculation of grow. And map_user_kiobuf() doesn't honor VM_LOCKED for VM_GROWSDOWN segments. Probably it should be switched

console=ttyS0 doesn't work 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Nick Papadonis
I compiled the Linux kernel v2.4.4 and can't get 'console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0' to work. This appended line works fine when I boot into my 2.2.x series kernel. Anyone have similar problems? Has anyone verified serial console output works with the 2.4.x kernels? Thanks. - Nick Here is

Re: FS Structs

2001-05-04 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 22:29 03/05/01, Anders Karlsson wrote: >I am not subscribed to the list, so if I could be CC'd on eventual >replies I would be grateful. Sure. >I have a question regarding some of the parts of the overall >filesystem structure in the 2.4 kernel. (Kernel 2.4.[34].) >In the file fs/super.c the

Re: Athlon/VIA Kernel Experimentation (mmx.c)

2001-05-04 Thread Alan Cox
> is to find out why this copy is not working properly... > > For me the output is: > > ... > Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed > Kernel panic: fast_page_copy: dest value @ 0xcfed1000 (39312036) does > not equal source value @ cfed4000(79005b)! Swap the panic for a printk/BUG() and

[PATCH] [UPDATED] mct_u232 usb serial driver

2001-05-04 Thread Stelian Pop
This patch fixes two bugs in the mct_u232 driver when used with the Sitecom U232-P25 device: - baud calculation (already posted two days ago) was wrong, making it impossible to be used with a fixed baud rate device - the maximum output packet size as reported by the

Re: Maximum files per Directory

2001-05-04 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, May 01, 2001 04:57:02 PM -0600 Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H. Peter Anvin writes: >> Not correct, there can't be more than 2^15 *directories* in a single >> directory. I belive this is an ext2 limitation. > > > I see that reiserfs plays some tricks with the

Re: Linux syscall speed -- was X15 rootin-tootin webserver

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Rothwell
There seems to be a contingent of people on the LKML who think that it is appropriate to flame people off-list, in order to bask in their own superiority, or prove that they are smarter by pointing out that someone is an idiot, etc. I would figure that most intelligent people would simply ignore

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Brian Gerst
Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > |> On Fri, 04 May 2001 07:34:20 -0500, > |> Todd Inglett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |> >But this is where hell breaks loose. Every process has a valid parent > |> >-- unless it is dead and nobody cares. Process N has

Re: tmpfs doesn't update free memory stats?

2001-05-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Jacek, On Fri, 4 May 2001, Jacek Kopecky wrote: > I'm not in the list, please cc your replies to me. > After upgrading to 2.4.4 I started using tmpfs for /tmp and I > noticed a strange behavior: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=blah bs=1024 count=102400 > # increased my used swap space by

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> On Fri, 04 May 2001 07:34:20 -0500, |> Todd Inglett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> >But this is where hell breaks loose. Every process has a valid parent |> >-- unless it is dead and nobody cares. Process N has already exited and |> >released from the

Re: Athlon/VIA Kernel Experimentation (mmx.c)

2001-05-04 Thread Brian Gerst
Seth Goldberg wrote: > > Hi, > > I implemented a small check loop at the end of the fast_page_copy > routine in mmx.c for the Athlon. Booting the resulting kernel > yields an interesting result. Every single time, the kernel > panics RIGHT AFTER it frees unused kernel memory from bootup. > I

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac3, asm problem in asm-i386/rwsem.h using gcc 3.0 CVS

2001-05-04 Thread Christian Iseli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Looks like if you remove the "inline" from the function definition > this compiles OK. Yup, looks like a compiler bug. I submitted a bug report to GCC-gnats. Cheers, Christian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Question on mmap(2) with kernel alocated memory

2001-05-04 Thread Terry Barnaby
I am trying to mmap() into user space a kernel buffer and am having problems. I have a simple test example, can someone please tell me what I have got wrong ? In a driver I do: uint*kva; kva = (uint*)kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL); *kva = 0x11223344; printk("Address: %p %lx

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 04 May 2001 07:34:20 -0500, Todd Inglett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But this is where hell breaks loose. Every process has a valid parent >-- unless it is dead and nobody cares. Process N has already exited and >released from the tasklist while its parent was still alive. There was

Re: pcmcia problems after upgrading from 2.4.3-ac7 to 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Martin.Knoblauch
"Martin.Knoblauch" wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > my DE-620 pccard stopped working after upgrading the kernel from > > > 2.4.3-ac7 to 2.4.4. This is on a Toshiba 4080XCDT. I used the "good" > > > .config from the 2.4.3-ac7 build to do a make "oldconfig". The symptoms > > > at startup are:

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 04 May 2001 13:37:08 +0200, Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have searched a long time for a method to disable the internal >speaker for every application, every daemon and so on. Userspace problem, userspace fix. setterm -blength 0 (text) xset b 0 (X11) - To

Re: Swap space deallocation speed. (fwd)

2001-05-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:03:39AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > unresponsive. The relevant line in the log, as you can find in the attached > "crash.log" file, appears to be: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00020024 > Apr 16 11:23:06 dave kernel: esi:

Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

2001-05-04 Thread Todd Inglett
Ok, I've got this isolated. Here's the sequence of events: 1. Some process T (probably "top") opens /proc/N/stat. 2. While holding tasklist_lock the proc code does a get_task_struct() to add a ref count to the page. 3. Process N exits. 4. The parent of process N exits. 5. Process T reads

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-04 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > during boot. I can then reshuffle my disk to have that 50M of data at > the beginning and reading all that into 50M of cache, I can save Wasn't that one of the goals of the LVM project, along snapshots and block-level HSM ? - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, May 04 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Ditto for some CD based stuff. You burn the important binaries to the front > > > of the CD, then at boot dd 64Mb to /dev/null to prime the libraries and > > > avoid a lot of seeking during boot up from the

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Simon Richter
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Nico Schottelius wrote: > I have searched a long time for a method to disable the internal > speaker for every application, every daemon and so on. It would be cool if that weren't a compile time option but configurable at runtime (via sysctl). Simon -- GPG public key

Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

2001-05-04 Thread Rogier Wolff
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ditto for some CD based stuff. You burn the important binaries to the front > > of the CD, then at boot dd 64Mb to /dev/null to prime the libraries and > > avoid a lot of seeking during boot up from the CD-ROM. > > > > However I

added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hi guys! I have searched a long time for a method to disable the internal speaker for every application, every daemon and so on. With the help of [] I have found the right file : drivers/char/vt.c Now I have made some changes to this file (from 2.4.4 kernel). I wanted to ask you whether you

Re: Possible PCI subsystem bug in 2.4

2001-05-04 Thread Rogier Wolff
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Obvious one is to go to the next power of two clear. > > The question is mainly _which_ power of two. > > I don't think we can round up infinitely, as that might just end up > causing us to not have any PCI space at all.

Re: [PATCH] strtok -> strsep (The Easy Cases)

2001-05-04 Thread Rene Scharfe
Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2001 02:57 schrieb Rusty Russell: > In message <01050120580701.01713@golmepha> you write: > > Hello, Hi! > > > > the patch at the bottom does the bulk job of strtok replacement. It's a > > very boring patch, containing easy cases, only. It became a bit big, too, > > but I

Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

2001-05-04 Thread Abramo Bagnara
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Abramo Bagnara writes: > > it's perfectly fine to have: > > > > regs = (struct reg *) ioremap(addr, size); > > foo = readl((unsigned long)>bar); > > > > I don't see how one can find this valid compared to my preference of > just plain readl(>bar); You're

Re: pcmcia problems after upgrading from 2.4.3-ac7 to 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Martin.Knoblauch
Alan Cox wrote: > > > my DE-620 pccard stopped working after upgrading the kernel from > > 2.4.3-ac7 to 2.4.4. This is on a Toshiba 4080XCDT. I used the "good" > > .config from the 2.4.3-ac7 build to do a make "oldconfig". The symptoms > > at startup are: > > 2.4.4 has older pcmcia than

tmpfs doesn't update free memory stats?

2001-05-04 Thread Jacek Kopecky
Hello. 8-) I'm not in the list, please cc your replies to me. After upgrading to 2.4.4 I started using tmpfs for /tmp and I noticed a strange behavior: dd if=/dev/zero of=blah bs=1024 count=102400 # increased my used swap space by approx. 100MiB (correct) rm blah # did not

Athlon/VIA Kernel Experimentation (mmx.c)

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, I implemented a small check loop at the end of the fast_page_copy routine in mmx.c for the Athlon. Booting the resulting kernel yields an interesting result. Every single time, the kernel panics RIGHT AFTER it frees unused kernel memory from bootup. I encourage those of you with the same

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Hello Ivan, Hello David! > I don't know whether it will (a) compile, or (b) work... I don't have an alpha > to play with. It looks ok at a first glance, I can try it today. > I also don't know the alpha function calling

Re: aic7xxx: first mount always fails

2001-05-04 Thread David Santinoli
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:27:50PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > My guess is that your CDROM drive takes longer than most to perform > the initial read capacity. There is little to be done for this other > than uping the timeout value in the CD driver. It was a hardware issue indeed - an

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread David Howells
Hello Ivan, One reason I picked "signed long" as the count type in the lib/rwsem.c is that this would be 64 bits on a 64-bit arch such as the alpha. So I've taken your idea for include/asm-alpha/rwsem.h and modified it a little. You'll find it attached at the bottom. I don't know whether it

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:28:48PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I'd love if you could port it on top of this one and to fix it so that > it can handle up to 2^32 sleepers and not only 2^16 like we have to do > on the 32bit archs to get good performance: > >

pdc20267 both channels share one IRQ

2001-05-04 Thread Hendrik Volker Brunn
Is it ok for an Promise Ultra 100 to have both channels assigned the same IRQ? I have one DTLA-307030 attached as master to each channel and get transfer rates at around 12 - 16 MB/s. As I have heard people reporting transfer rates of about 24 - 28 MB/s I was wondering if there were some

Re: Memory management issues with 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Jorge Nerín
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jorge Nerin wrote: > >> Short version: >> Under very heavy thrashing (about four hours) the system either lockups >> or OOM handler kills a task even when there is swap space left. > > > First of all, please try to reproduce the problem with

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] Penguin logos

2001-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Finally I found some time to incorporate the very nice logos contributed by > Simon Budig. Thank you Simon! > > Patches (for both 2.4.5-pre1 and 2.4.4-ac4) can be downloaded from: > > http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/fbdev/logo.html Sorry, I

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-04 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:19:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > If they are using glibc then you have the right to the object to link > with the library and the library source under the LGPL. I dont know of any > app using its own C lib qmail is nearly there. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com

Idea for Athlon/Duron failure testing...

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, Do you think it would be a good idea to check the fast_copy athlon mmx routine by putting in code that basically compares the source & destination copies and checks if they are equal? I realize that will slow down the system, but for testing, it seems like a good idea... --S - To

dhcp problem with realtek 8139 clone with rh 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread Rasmus Gunnar
Hi, I have som problem with my realtek 8139 clone. It won't work with dhcp against my isp. I've just installed redhat 7.1 on a i386 with to (exactly the same) network cards, one that should be connected to my isp, and one to the local network. My local network works fine, but when I try to start

Re: X15 alpha release

2001-05-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
Fabio, i noticed another RFC anomaly in X15. It ignores the "Connection: close" request header passed by a HTTP/1.1 client. This behavior is against RFC 2616, a server must not override the client's choice of non-persistent connection. (there might be HTTP/1.1 clients that do not support

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Gordon Sadler wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:43:22AM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > Hi, Hi, Have you tried compiling ther kernel with Athlon optimiztions turned off (try compiling for a K6-II[I])? The has stopped the same thing from happening on my system and those of a few other

Re: Solution - AMI megaraid driver doesn't work with Linux 2.4.x kernels

2001-05-04 Thread Rafael Martinez
---Reply to mail from Venkatesh Ramamurthy about Solution - AMI megaraid driver doesn't work with Linux 2.4.x kernels > Can you provide the dmesg output of your system after loading the driver > either successfully or unsucessfully. > Successfully: (Raid 5 4x18GB)

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-05-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I was looking over the iso9660 code, and noticed that it was doing > > endianness conversion via ad hoc *functions*, not even inlines; nor did > > it take any advantage of the fact that iso9660 is bi-endian (has "all" > > data in both bigendian and littleendian format.) > > > > The

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > That means that for fooling closed-source statically-linked binary, > > > > If they are using glibc then you have the right to the object to link > > with the library and the library source under the LGPL. I dont know of any > > app using its own C lib > > Some don't use any libc at

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:43:22AM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > Hi, > >What hardware are you running? > AMD Duron 800 Epox 8KTA3 m/b VIA KT133A AGPSet (KT133A+VT82C686B) 128 MB pc100 brandname SDRAM Inter etherexpress100 Nvidia Riva TNT (orig.) Quantum FB LP LM20.5 Full details available

Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?

2001-05-04 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:46:13PM +0800, Yiping Chen wrote: > I want to contact with the author of linux kernel. > Anybody knows how to contact with them? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" list is quite good way for that. > Our leader hope put our own driver into linux kernel. > I am not sure whether

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard

2001-05-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Albert D. Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Procedure: > > 1. throw out all junk symbols (could try spell checking first) > 2. mark non-default settings as read-only > 3. add missing symbols as needed to meet constraints > 4. add any additional missing symbols > 5. mutate the config until it

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, What hardware are you running? --seth > > Please CC any replies. > Please refer to my previous post 'PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot' > for complete machine details/configuration. > > I'm still working on different 2.4 kernels trying to get just one to > boot normally.

OT: Alan Cox' response

2001-05-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.05.04 03:20:46 +0200 Miles Lane wrote: > Prepared Text of Remarks by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice > President > The Commercial Software Model > The New York University Stern School of Business > May 3, 2001 For the people who missed it, Alan Cox' response is at:

Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

2001-05-04 Thread David S. Miller
Abramo Bagnara writes: > it's perfectly fine to have: > > regs = (struct reg *) ioremap(addr, size); > foo = readl((unsigned long)>bar); > I don't see how one can find this valid compared to my preference of just plain readl(>bar); You're telling me it's nicer to have the butt ugly cast

Re: unsigned long ioremap()?

2001-05-04 Thread Abramo Bagnara
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Abramo Bagnara writes: > > IMO this is a far less effective debugging strategy. > > I agree with you. > > But guess what driver authors are going to do? They are going to cast > the thing left and right. And sure you can then search for that, but > it isn't

PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Gordon Sadler
Please CC any replies. Please refer to my previous post 'PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot' for complete machine details/configuration. I'm still working on different 2.4 kernels trying to get just one to boot normally. Currently I've removed all modules and built everything into the kernel,

FS Structs

2001-05-04 Thread Anders Karlsson
Hello, Many thanks for a very good and solid piece of software in the Linux kernel. It has been very useful to me for several years now. I am not subscribed to the list, so if I could be CC'd on eventual replies I would be grateful. I have a question regarding some of the parts of the overall

rtc: lost some interrupts / mga_flush_ioctl *ERROR* lock not held

2001-05-04 Thread thunder7
Should I be worried about these? May 4 08:09:29 middle kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz. May 4 08:09:38 middle last message repeated 2 times May 4 08:09:56 middle kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz. May 4 08:10:05 middle kernel: [drm:mga_flush_ioctl] *ERROR* lock not held

Patch for shared interrupts in PCI IDE

2001-05-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
One of our customers has a Fujitsu laptop, poor thing... It shares IRQ10 between Eepro, additional IDE for CD-ROM (CMD646), and USB controllers. I talked this over with DaveM briefly, and if I understood him right, something like the attached patch may be in order. Anyone cares to comment? Thank

Patch for shared interrupts in PCI IDE

2001-05-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
One of our customers has a Fujitsu laptop, poor thing... It shares IRQ10 between Eepro, additional IDE for CD-ROM (CMD646), and USB controllers. I talked this over with DaveM briefly, and if I understood him right, something like the attached patch may be in order. Anyone cares to comment? Thank

rtc: lost some interrupts / mga_flush_ioctl *ERROR* lock not held

2001-05-04 Thread thunder7
Should I be worried about these? May 4 08:09:29 middle kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 256Hz. May 4 08:09:38 middle last message repeated 2 times May 4 08:09:56 middle kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz. May 4 08:10:05 middle kernel: [drm:mga_flush_ioctl] *ERROR* lock not held

FS Structs

2001-05-04 Thread Anders Karlsson
Hello, Many thanks for a very good and solid piece of software in the Linux kernel. It has been very useful to me for several years now. I am not subscribed to the list, so if I could be CC'd on eventual replies I would be grateful. I have a question regarding some of the parts of the overall

PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Gordon Sadler
Please CC any replies. Please refer to my previous post 'PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot' for complete machine details/configuration. I'm still working on different 2.4 kernels trying to get just one to boot normally. Currently I've removed all modules and built everything into the kernel,

OT: Alan Cox' response

2001-05-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 2001.05.04 03:20:46 +0200 Miles Lane wrote: Prepared Text of Remarks by Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice President The Commercial Software Model The New York University Stern School of Business May 3, 2001 For the people who missed it, Alan Cox' response is at:

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, What hardware are you running? --seth Please CC any replies. Please refer to my previous post 'PROBLEM: 2.4.4 oops, will not boot' for complete machine details/configuration. I'm still working on different 2.4 kernels trying to get just one to boot normally. Currently I've

Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?

2001-05-04 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:46:13PM +0800, Yiping Chen wrote: I want to contact with the author of linux kernel. Anybody knows how to contact with them? [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is quite good way for that. Our leader hope put our own driver into linux kernel. I am not sure whether it was

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:43:22AM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: Hi, What hardware are you running? AMD Duron 800 Epox 8KTA3 m/b VIA KT133A AGPSet (KT133A+VT82C686B) 128 MB pc100 brandname SDRAM Inter etherexpress100 Nvidia Riva TNT (orig.) Quantum FB LP LM20.5 Full details available in

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! That means that for fooling closed-source statically-linked binary, If they are using glibc then you have the right to the object to link with the library and the library source under the LGPL. I dont know of any app using its own C lib Some don't use any libc at all, some

Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch

2001-05-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I was looking over the iso9660 code, and noticed that it was doing endianness conversion via ad hoc *functions*, not even inlines; nor did it take any advantage of the fact that iso9660 is bi-endian (has all data in both bigendian and littleendian format.) The attached patch

Re: Solution - AMI megaraid driver doesn't work with Linux 2.4.x kernels

2001-05-04 Thread Rafael Martinez
---Reply to mail from Venkatesh Ramamurthy about Solution - AMI megaraid driver doesn't work with Linux 2.4.x kernels Can you provide the dmesg output of your system after loading the driver either successfully or unsucessfully. Successfully: (Raid 5 4x18GB)

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.5pre1 will not boot

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Gordon Sadler wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:43:22AM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: Hi, Hi, Have you tried compiling ther kernel with Athlon optimiztions turned off (try compiling for a K6-II[I])? The has stopped the same thing from happening on my system and those of a few other people.

Re: X15 alpha release

2001-05-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
Fabio, i noticed another RFC anomaly in X15. It ignores the Connection: close request header passed by a HTTP/1.1 client. This behavior is against RFC 2616, a server must not override the client's choice of non-persistent connection. (there might be HTTP/1.1 clients that do not support

dhcp problem with realtek 8139 clone with rh 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread Rasmus Gunnar
Hi, I have som problem with my realtek 8139 clone. It won't work with dhcp against my isp. I've just installed redhat 7.1 on a i386 with to (exactly the same) network cards, one that should be connected to my isp, and one to the local network. My local network works fine, but when I try to start

Idea for Athlon/Duron failure testing...

2001-05-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, Do you think it would be a good idea to check the fast_copy athlon mmx routine by putting in code that basically compares the source destination copies and checks if they are equal? I realize that will slow down the system, but for testing, it seems like a good idea... --S - To

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] Penguin logos

2001-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Finally I found some time to incorporate the very nice logos contributed by Simon Budig. Thank you Simon! Patches (for both 2.4.5-pre1 and 2.4.4-ac4) can be downloaded from: http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/fbdev/logo.html Sorry, I had

Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd)

2001-05-04 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:19:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: If they are using glibc then you have the right to the object to link with the library and the library source under the LGPL. I dont know of any app using its own C lib qmail is nearly there. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com

Re: Memory management issues with 2.4.4

2001-05-04 Thread Jorge Nerín
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jorge Nerin wrote: Short version: Under very heavy thrashing (about four hours) the system either lockups or OOM handler kills a task even when there is swap space left. First of all, please try to reproduce the problem with 2.4.5-pre1.

pdc20267 both channels share one IRQ

2001-05-04 Thread Hendrik Volker Brunn
Is it ok for an Promise Ultra 100 to have both channels assigned the same IRQ? I have one DTLA-307030 attached as master to each channel and get transfer rates at around 12 - 16 MB/s. As I have heard people reporting transfer rates of about 24 - 28 MB/s I was wondering if there were some

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:28:48PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: I'd love if you could port it on top of this one and to fix it so that it can handle up to 2^32 sleepers and not only 2^16 like we have to do on the 32bit archs to get good performance:

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread David Howells
Hello Ivan, One reason I picked signed long as the count type in the lib/rwsem.c is that this would be 64 bits on a 64-bit arch such as the alpha. So I've taken your idea for include/asm-alpha/rwsem.h and modified it a little. You'll find it attached at the bottom. I don't know whether it will

Re: aic7xxx: first mount always fails

2001-05-04 Thread David Santinoli
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:27:50PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: My guess is that your CDROM drive takes longer than most to perform the initial read capacity. There is little to be done for this other than uping the timeout value in the CD driver. It was a hardware issue indeed - an upgrade

Re: [patch] 2.4.4 alpha semaphores optimization

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David Howells wrote: Hello Ivan, Hello David! I don't know whether it will (a) compile, or (b) work... I don't have an alpha to play with. It looks ok at a first glance, I can try it today. I also don't know the alpha function calling convention,

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