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

2001-05-10 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 booted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/aic7xxx/0.

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 BIOS

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: Personally I

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

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 like

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 motherboard,

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 a hot plug

Re: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-09 Thread Andy Carlson
Mine is a Micronics W6LI with Phoenix BIOS. Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ BJC Health System |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics:

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 all

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 way a

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

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

RE: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-07 Thread Oyvind Jagtnes
It works fine on my dual ppro 200 (not sure what mobo). Here is lcpci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02) 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA

RE: 2.4.4-ac5 aic7xxx causes hang on my machine

2001-05-07 Thread Oyvind Jagtnes
It works fine on my dual ppro 200 (not sure what mobo). Here is lcpci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02) 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA

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 fixed