[PROBLEM] 2.4.1-pre2 - Undefined symbol `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-11 Thread Shawn Starr
GCC 2.95.2 - PGCC 2.95.2(3?) patched. 2.4.0 compiles fine init/main.o: In function `check_fpu': init/main.o(.text.init+0x53): undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 On compiling (and recompiling) i get this fatal error. This function does not exist anymore?

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and w

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:08:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Could people with Athlons please verify that pre3 works for them? It works fine. It also makes the fxsr disable act the same way the TSC disable does. Note that there was a precise reason for not implementing it as the TSC

Re: Linux 2.4.0-ac7

2001-01-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Jan 12 2001, Bill Crawford wrote: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-ac7/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o depmod: queued_sectors Apologies, I didn't think of modular SCSI/IDE for this... --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.0-ac7/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c Fri Jan

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.4.1-pre2 - Undefined symbol `__buggy_fxsr_alignment' - (FIXED)

2001-01-11 Thread Shawn Starr
e i think it was just fixed in pre3 ;-) + if (offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.i387.fxsave) 15) { + extern void __buggy_fxsr_alignment(void); + __buggy_fxsr_alignment(); + } GCC 2.95.2 - PGCC 2.95.2(3?) patched. 2.4.0 compiles fine

depmod -a and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Bob_Tracy
Maybe I missed the discussion, but why might "depmod -a" result in every module getting installed? This didn't happen under any of the 2.4.0-testX releases that I recall, and I ran every one of those and the prerelease without this "trouble". Gotta say, the screen output from running "lsmod"

followup: depmod -a and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Bob_Tracy
Dooh! Please ignore earlier bogus report of module loading "trouble". This was my bad: an old init script was running "modprobe -a". Sigh... -- Bob Tracy[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "We might

Re: Anyone else interested in a high-precision monotonic counter?

2001-01-11 Thread Manfred Bartz
"Christopher Friesen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manfred Bartz wrote: Why a new system call? Well, you'd be accessing a different kernel variable--"ytime" instead of "xtime". This new variable wouldn't be adjusted when the system time/date was, it would start at zero and always increase.

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread John O'Donnell
Alan Cox wrote: us who have via chipset motherboards, suggesting that it is limited to that chipset, that chipset is ubiquitous, or via chipset motherboard owners are generally the complaining type. no idea which applies there, either. Or there are a lot of them. 90% of scsi bug

Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and w

2001-01-11 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Note that there was a precise reason for not implementing it as the TSC disable (infact at first in 2.2.x I was clearing the bigflag in x86_capabilities too). The reason is that the way TSC gets disabled breaks /proc/cpuinfo. No. It FIXES

Re: depmod -a and 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David Ford
pretty darned impressive :-). Another oddity that someone else already reported: the ipv6 module shows a reference count of -1. a ref count of -1 means the module decides when to unload. -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.blue-labs.org adr:;; version:2.1

Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:41:30 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: I'm actually considering making the SG w/o hwcsum situation illegal. i believe it might still make some limited sense for normal sendmsg() and higher

2.4.1-pre3 UP

2001-01-11 Thread Garst R. Reese
I think you missed an ifdef in ksyms, We don't all have smp also update Makefile Garst - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[semi-OT] Historic Linux Kernels.

2001-01-11 Thread Nicholas Knight
on kernel.org you can get old kernels clear back to 0.01 in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ but some things are missing, though nothing major what's missing that I'm most interested in is the linux boot-disk that apparently came into being around .11. to quote from

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: us who have via chipset motherboards, suggesting that it is limited to that chipset, that chipset is ubiquitous, or via chipset motherboard owners are generally the complaining type. no idea which applies there, either. Sheesh, when you can

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Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:No such process)

2001-01-11 Thread Paul Cassella
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Paul Cassella wrote: and mss_now seems to be less than skb-len when the printk happens. My copy of KR is at work; could that comparison be being done unsigned because of skb-len? I wouldn't think so, but the alternative seems somewhat worse... That'll teach me to post

Updated zerocopy patches on kernel.org

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Now against 2.4.1-pre2: ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p2-1.diff.gz Changes since the previous installment: 1) Correct netfilter URLS, from Paul Russell. 2) Increase MAX_SKB_FRAGS to 6, from me. 3) Set loopback MTU more appropriately now that we use page based

Question regarding driver developement

2001-01-11 Thread Anders Johansson
Hi I am very sorry for disturbing the kernel development with this question which I suspect might be off topic. If I am totally off topic please tell me where to find help in your flame mails. I am developing a device driver (will be GPL) for a PCI board hosting two Digital Signal Processors

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB Config fix for 2.2.19-pre7

2001-01-11 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote: Why do the input handlers depend on CONFIG_USB_HID? On PPC we already have trouble with them depending on CONFIG_USB, so everybody has to select CONFIG_USB even if he just has ADB hardware. Don't these input drivers _require_ the

Re: khttpd beaten by boa

2001-01-11 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2001-01-11T22:20:56, Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Then we decided to switch persistant connection off... But boa still wins. What is wrong here? I would expect transferates of a 3-4 megabytes over a localhost interface. The file is certainly in some kind of cache. This

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! I'm the current maintainer of the VIA driver. I'm pretty sure the version in 2.4.0 programs the chips correctly for harddrives at various speeds, even leaving some margins where it shouldn't need to. I think there is not any problem with Western Digital drives, I've got many reports of them

Re: Strange umount problem in latest 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-11 Thread Christoph Rohland
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same cam be applied to shm ? Thus kernel Documentation/Changes should be changed: [...] none/dev/shmshm defaults0 0 to shm/dev/shmshm defaults0 0 Yes, I thought that I changed that :-( I always

Re: IDE DMA problems on 2.4.0 with vt82c686a driver

2001-01-11 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: Since this looks like either a chipset, drive, or driver problem, I am no: the only entities involved with udma crc's are the drive, the controller (and the cable). the kernel is not involved in any way (except to configure udma,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
"David S. Miller" wrote: 2) It affects only code which can burn a lot of cpu without scheduling. Compare this to schemes which make the kernel fully pre-emptable, causing _EVERYONE_ to pay the price of low-latency Is there necessarily a

[DOS] emulation under linux

2001-01-11 Thread Jim M.
Hi, There is a compiler package that runs on DOS but not on Linux. I was wondered how can i emulate DOS under linux so that i run the compile package?. I have kernel 2.2.14-12. RH 6.2. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

2001-01-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Ingo Molnar wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: Nothing interesting or new, just merges up with the latest 2.4.1-pre1 patch from Linus. ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p1-1.diff.gz I haven't had any reports from anyone, which must mean

[depmod] question

2001-01-11 Thread Jim M.
Hello all, I have kernel verison 2.2.14-12 version with RH6.2. I do "cd /sbin" and i see "depmod" there in the /sbin directory. But somehow seems like load module is not working. Maybe this is the reason why system freezes happen in my RH. A driver for a custom built pci card is not loaded

Re: 2.4.0-ac3 write() to tcp socket returning errno of -3 (ESRCH:No such process)

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:45:13 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Cassella [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not familiar enough with the tcp code to know if this patch (against -ac6) is a solution, band-aid, or, in fact, wrong, but I've run with it (on -ac3) and haven't seen the errors for over

Re: [PATCH] Invalid Netfilter URL in Documentation/Changes in 2.4.0

2001-01-11 Thread David S. Miller
From: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:38:26 +1100 My bad. Please revert, and apply this (the samba.org guys are now the same form as the others): Done. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

2001-01-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: Is there any value to supporting fragments in a driver which doesn't do hardware checksumming? IIRC Alexey had a patch to do such for Tulip, but I don't see it in the above patchset. I'm actually considering making the SG w/o hwcsum

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