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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Simon Hafner <reactorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/8/14 Jim Cromie <jim.cro...@gmail.com>: >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:54 AM, liquid <liqui...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am trying to install voyage linux 0.8.5 on an Alix 3d2 board via pxe boot. >>> I can see that it loads the image properly, but the boot process hangs on >>> "Switching to clocksource tsc". I've seen that voyage uses newer kernel >>> version, which i suspect to be the problem. I have been able to install and >>> boot debian stable on 2.6.32 kernel on this board, but i need the newer >>> kernel's support for MP-6x10 driver. I have already tried adding "nomfgpt" >>> kernel parameter and setting "clocksource=" to various values. The card's >>> bios version is 0.99h (newest), and it supports some kind of MFGPT >>> workaround, which I have also been trying switching on. I have no idea what >>> else i could try to boot the system, so i beg you for help :) >> >> I have a soekris 4801, which iirc has the same CPU, with the same TSC bug: >> the tsc clock slows down under some situations : iirc when kernel scheduler >> runs the idle task >> >> The kernel has detected this for ages, and switches to another clocksource, >> 1st pit, then finally to scx200_hrt, which has higher resolution, and less >> overhead accessing it. >> >> root@voyage:~# dmesg | grep -i -E 'tsc|clocksource' >> [ 0.000000] Fast TSC calibration using PIT >> [ 0.401200] Switching to clocksource pit >> [ 6.431014] Switching to clocksource tsc >> [ 8.423737] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -103967911 ns) >> [ 8.433916] Switching to clocksource pit >> [ 47.369942] Switching to clocksource scx200_hrt > > I don't see any of those. hmm - thats odd. Im running daily-build now, so cant go back and check, but those messages have been there as long as I can remember. Can you confirm that the Alix actually has a Geode ? if not, then the clocksource business above isnt relevant. root@voyage:~# more /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : Geode by NSC cpu family : 5 model : 9 model name : Unknown stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 266.667 If it is a geode, please try daily-build, then we can closely compare your dmesg to mine. > >> root@voyage:~# uname -a >> Linux voyage 3.4.4-voyage #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 12 12:01:41 HKT 2012 >> i586 GNU/Linux >> So youre hanging ? and not spontaneously rebooting ? > > it hangs on PXE boot. > >> there was a problem with 0.8.0 or 0.8.5 relating to contents >> of /etc/modprobe.d/4801.conf, a missing "options". >> Heres a correct one. >> >> # These lines generated automatically by copyfiles.sh, >> # parsing VOYAGE_SYSTEM_MODULES from Profile: 4801 >> # on Tue Aug 14 21:18:56 MDT 2012 >> # >> >> options wd1100 sysctl_wd_graceful=0 sysctl_wd_timeout=30 >> options scx200_acb base=0x810,0x820 >> options pc87360 init=2 >> >> can you C&P the console msgs ? > >============================= > boot: 3 > Loading linux.... > Loading initrd.img........ready. > [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.17-voyage (3.2.17-1) ... > enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > [ 2.543017] Switching to clocksource tsc _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
