Re: [linux-power]Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Akos Maroy
Martin Hamilton wrote: > FWIW, I didn't have any luck with the 2.4.3 swsusp-v8pre3 patch - my > C1VE suspended to disk, but on re-reading the memory image from swap > space the machine reset and we were back to the LILO prompt & fsck. I can confirm Martin's experience, I got the same results.

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Martin Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (cc'd to the acpi list, where people have also been talking about this recently...) Ookhoi writes: | I tried swsusp on my vaio (also a c1ve :-) and it didn't work because it | (said it) couldn't stop

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Martin Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Grover, Andrew" writes: | I don't think I understand that first sentence. (Let me respond anyways ;-) Doh! Sorry, what I meant was that (if I'm understanding this right!) the AML interpreter being

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Ookhoi
> > > I was wondering whether the swsusp work might form a useful basis > > > for the eventual ACPI implementation of the to-disk hibernation > > > stuff: > > > > I (and others) have looked at it. It's a pretty cool patch, but it > > really isn't the right way to do things. > > swsusp is most

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Ookhoi
I was wondering whether the swsusp work might form a useful basis for the eventual ACPI implementation of the to-disk hibernation stuff: I (and others) have looked at it. It's a pretty cool patch, but it really isn't the right way to do things. swsusp is most definitely the

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Martin Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Grover, Andrew" writes: | I don't think I understand that first sentence. (Let me respond anyways ;-) Doh! Sorry, what I meant was that (if I'm understanding this right!) the AML interpreter being

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Martin Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii (cc'd to the acpi list, where people have also been talking about this recently...) Ookhoi writes: | I tried swsusp on my vaio (also a c1ve :-) and it didn't work because it | (said it) couldn't stop

Re: [linux-power]Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-19 Thread Akos Maroy
Martin Hamilton wrote: FWIW, I didn't have any luck with the 2.4.3 swsusp-v8pre3 patch - my C1VE suspended to disk, but on re-reading the memory image from swap space the machine reset and we were back to the LILO prompt fsck. I can confirm Martin's experience, I got the same results. Akos

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-18 Thread Alan Cox
> > I was wondering whether the swsusp work might form a useful basis for > > the eventual ACPI implementation of the to-disk hibernation stuff: > > I (and others) have looked at it. It's a pretty cool patch, but it really > isn't the right way to do things. swsusp is most definitely the right

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-18 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Martin Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > | ACPI is meant to abstract the OS from all the "magic > numbers". It's very > | possible to do things in a platform-specific way, but if > you want to handle > | all platforms, you'd end up with something ACPI-like. > > This isn't me

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-18 Thread Martin Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Grover, Andrew" writes: | (BTW, read the ACPI 2.0 spec - it's a lot better) I'm getting there... perhaps tomorrow :-)) | ACPI is meant to abstract the OS from all the "magic numbers". It's very |

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-18 Thread Martin Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Grover, Andrew" writes: | (BTW, read the ACPI 2.0 spec - it's a lot better) I'm getting there... perhaps tomorrow :-)) | ACPI is meant to abstract the OS from all the "magic numbers". It's very |

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-18 Thread Grover, Andrew
From: Martin Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | ACPI is meant to abstract the OS from all the "magic numbers". It's very | possible to do things in a platform-specific way, but if you want to handle | all platforms, you'd end up with something ACPI-like. This isn't me talking, but I

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-18 Thread Alan Cox
I was wondering whether the swsusp work might form a useful basis for the eventual ACPI implementation of the to-disk hibernation stuff: I (and others) have looked at it. It's a pretty cool patch, but it really isn't the right way to do things. swsusp is most definitely the right way to

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-17 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Martin Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Pardon me for butting in, but perhaps this is relevant... > > I've seen the odd program which manipulates the ACPI tables/registers > directly rather than through an ASL compiler then an AML interpreter. > These appear to use the "magic

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
> > | that is intentional - first things first. > > Probably that's why drivers/media/video/Makefile contains references to > zoran.o, while zoran.c was ditched? zoran.c moved, because zoran.o is the output name of the module itself - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-17 Thread Martin Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Alan Cox writes: | Adding a bloated interpreter for an obscure, misdesigned bios hardware | description language is simply not my idea of progress. Pardon me for butting in, but perhaps this is

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
| that is intentional - first things first. Probably that's why drivers/media/video/Makefile contains references to zoran.o, while zoran.c was ditched? zoran.c moved, because zoran.o is the output name of the module itself - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-17 Thread Grover, Andrew
From: Martin Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Pardon me for butting in, but perhaps this is relevant... I've seen the odd program which manipulates the ACPI tables/registers directly rather than through an ASL compiler then an AML interpreter. These appear to use the "magic numbers"

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > o Fix the Zoran driver build (me) > | This is still not up to date with the master copy > | that is intentional - first things first. Probably that's why drivers/media/video/Makefile contains references to zoran.o, while

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Alan Cox escreveu: > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include -Wall >-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe >-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
> I tried it on my dual P3 box with the VIA chipset and I'm definitely > getting timeouts for the USB devices. Booting with "noapic" resolves the > problem for me. Output of lspci for the VIA stuff is: Thats an unrelated problem. The BIOS on the tyan tiger is broken > - To unsubscribe from

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Chris Meadors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is the > acpi=no-idle work around the perminate fix? Fixed. I will be submitting a big ACPI patch to Linus & Alan very soon. Regards -- Andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be > the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not > as tested as the deduced ones. > > 2.4.3-ac7 > o Updated VIA quirk handling for the chipset (Andre Hedrick, >

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include > -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing > -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS > -include >

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include -Wall >-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe >-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include >/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include/linux/modversions.h

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Sergey Kubushin
=== Cut === make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/drivers/net/wan' ld -m elf_i386 -r -o wanpipe.o sdlamain.o sdla_ft1.o sdla_x25.o sdla_fr.o sdla_chdlc.o sdla_ppp.o wanpipe_multppp.o gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include -Wall

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be > > the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not > > as tested as the deduced ones. > > I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be > the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not > as tested as the deduced ones. I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is

Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously

Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not as tested as the deduced ones. I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is the

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not as tested as the deduced ones. I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Sergey Kubushin
=== Cut === make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/drivers/net/wan' ld -m elf_i386 -r -o wanpipe.o sdlamain.o sdla_ft1.o sdla_x25.o sdla_fr.o sdla_chdlc.o sdla_ppp.o wanpipe_multppp.o gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include -Wall

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not as tested as the deduced ones. 2.4.3-ac7 o Updated VIA quirk handling for the chipset (Andre Hedrick,

RE: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Grover, Andrew
From: Chris Meadors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is the acpi=no-idle work around the perminate fix? Fixed. I will be submitting a big ACPI patch to Linus Alan very soon. Regards -- Andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Cox
I tried it on my dual P3 box with the VIA chipset and I'm definitely getting timeouts for the USB devices. Booting with "noapic" resolves the problem for me. Output of lspci for the VIA stuff is: Thats an unrelated problem. The BIOS on the tyan tiger is broken - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Alan Cox escreveu: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/tmp/build-kernel/usr/src/linux-2.4.3ac7/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: o Fix the Zoran driver build (me) | This is still not up to date with the master copy | that is intentional - first things first. Probably that's why drivers/media/video/Makefile contains references to zoran.o, while