On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
beavisYou might even score!/beavis
Of course its attitudes like that which leads them to have to set up their
own mailing lists, and contribute to the rather low count of women on the
kernel credits
And makes some men wish they weren't...guilt
Andrew Morton wrote:
This patch fixes it. Interrupts are enabled across all console operations.
It's still somewhat a work-in-progress.
The patch applies OK against 2.4.3-pre1
At the end of make bzImage I got
kerne/kernel.o(.text+0xcd00): undefined reference to 'in_interrupt'
PR
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Pierre Rousselet wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
This patch fixes it. Interrupts are enabled across all console operations.
It's still somewhat a work-in-progress.
The patch applies OK against 2.4.3-pre1
At the end of make bzImage I got
kerne/kernel.o(.text+0xcd00): undefined
- Major revamp of printk(). The approach taken in printk() is to try
to acquire the (new) console_sem. If we succeed, the output is
placed into the log buffer and is printed to the consoles. If we fail
to acquire the semaphore we just buffer the output in the log buffer
and the
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, David wrote:
Is there a particular reason why 2.4 insists on stuffing as much as
possible into swap?
Yes.. the VM is being tuned. The latest changes result in overly
agressive caching with some work loads.
For people who are running into this, please edit mm/vmscan.c and
ctrl_alt_del() is called from hard interrupt context.
It traverses the reboot_notifier_list. Many of the
callouts on that list are not designed to be called
in this context.
DAC960_Finalise()
Calls remove_proc_entry() within interrupt context.
remove_proc_entry uses
Manfred Spraul wrote:
- Major revamp of printk(). The approach taken in printk() is to try
to acquire the (new) console_sem. If we succeed, the output is
placed into the log buffer and is printed to the consoles. If we fail
to acquire the semaphore we just buffer the output in the
Hi!
Transmit keycodes is AFAIK not implemented in official drivers.
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but the kernel has had a
keycode mode since before 1.0.
I meant ability for application to simulate pressing "shift" or
"pageup". I do not believe we have that feature.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:32:35AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
Code in parisc-linux CVS (based on 2.4.0) does boot on my OB800
(133Mhz Pentium), C3000, and A500 with PCI-PCI bridge support
working. I'm quite certain PCI-PCI bridge configuration (ie BIOS
didn't configure the bridge) support
In particular, if an edge-triggered interrupt comes in on an x86 IO-APIC
while that interrupt is disabled, enabling the interrupt will have caused
that irq to get dropped. And if it gets dropped, it will never ever happen
again: the interrupt line is now active, and there will never be another
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:40:14PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
Transmit keycodes is AFAIK not implemented in official drivers.
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but the kernel has had a
keycode mode since before 1.0.
I meant ability for application to simulate pressing "shift" or
Hi,
I'm trying to use the 2.4.1 Kernel but I have some troubles with my
ATAPI Matsushita UJDA510 DVD (Intel 82371AB/EP PCI Bus Master IDE
Controler).
It works perfekt with CD-Rom but when I try to read a ISO 9660 DVD I got
an error.
I can mount the DVD and I can list the complet content but I
LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-pre1
Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1274 1023)
I have no idea why the 1023 limit is coming up
Hi,
I didn't know where send this bug report, so I send it here as writen in
the Doc... Sorry if I mistake...
Ok, I have a Debian sid (sic), on a AMD K6-2 300, on a Asus P5A, I have
enabled AGP etc...
Ah ! My graphic card is a Riva TNT, and I use it with the Nvidia driver
0.9.6..
Ok, let's
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Christian Hilgers wrote:
So you need to compile the kernel with UDF support , which is the
filesystem used in DVDs. As you said, iso9660 works, but only for the
first 650 mb. And after it take a look at www.linuxvideo.org and
www.videolan.org.
Hi,
I'm trying to use the
" Frdric L. W. Meunier" wrote:
Correction. I can umount the partitions, but I get the
following message:
"can't link lock file /etc/mtab~: No such file or
directory (use -n flag to override)"
And /etc/mtab isn't updated.
Is your root filesystem mounted read-only at any point?
(check with
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-5007472.html
Hi,
I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has
no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor"
machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working
on this independantly.
These systems seems to be selling well with
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:45:43AM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-5007472.html
Hi,
I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has
no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor"
machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working
on
My personal experience strongly suggests that the NVdriver is the
culprit.
Try geting rid of it.
Arthur
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Romain Chantereau wrote:
Hi,
I didn't know where send this bug report, so I send it here as writen in
the Doc... Sorry if I mistake...
Ok, I have a Debian sid
Hi Rik,
Thoughts on the below?
2.4.2.ac11-virgin
real9m50.322s
user7m7.810s
sys 0m36.020s
2.4.2.ac11+limit kswap expectations and scan slightly heavier
real8m23.122s
user7m8.860s
sys 0m33.960s
At no time do I see cache collapse as in earlier kernels, nor do I see
cache
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:03:26AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
If anybody as a good idea to make this code auto-balancing,
please let me know.
I have no idea for auto-balancing but another idea: It's one possibility
to let the user choose when doing "make *config" what he wants:
- A VM
anyone have idea?
I am helping my friend to ask this question, Thanks
I mean kernel 2.4.1
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Thomas Lau wrote:
anyone have idea?
I am helping my friend to ask this question, Thanks
I mean kernel 2.4.1
Read Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
With those two simple functions, we could at least
- Have vgacon disable itself when there's no ISA memory (that can be
^^
handled by
reserving the region and thus preventing
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Christian Hilgers wrote:
So you need to compile the kernel with UDF support , which is the
filesystem used in DVDs. As you said, iso9660 works, but only for the
first 650 mb. And after it take a look at www.linuxvideo.org and
www.videolan.org.
UDF
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote:
Why do I think it works?
1. kswapd attempting to fix everything in one run doesn't take
into account that tasks not only allocate, they also free. If
we try to fix everything, we're usually assuring an overreaction.
2. scanning a little more
On Sunday 04 March 2001 18:08, you wrote:
anyone have idea?
it does work.
I mean kernel 2.4.1
why? use a more recent one, like 2.4.2-ac11.
Hi, well
he is using RAID card !
his 2.2.x promise hacked modules work fine, but I didn't install that old
modules, it's not support SCSI emulator
What does everybody think of the idea of trying to write a RISC PROM-like
BIOS for the x86 architecture?
I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a while, and after I got
my first SGI I realized that something like this would be fairly useful.
Basically, I'm wondering if anybody is
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:29:47PM -0600, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
What does everybody think of the idea of trying to write a RISC PROM-like
BIOS for the x86 architecture?
I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a while, and after I got
my first SGI I realized that something like
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:29:47PM -0600, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
What does everybody think of the idea of trying to write a RISC PROM-like
BIOS for the x86 architecture?
I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a while, and after I
So once again I vote for the introduction of
isa_{request,release}_mem_region(), just like we already have isa_readb() and
friends.
Well, it's the same problem as the IO, there may be more than one ISA mem
region,
especially when you put 2 video cards on 2 different PCI hosts (even without a
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
Have a look at OpenBIOS:
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/
The project wants to create an IEEE 1275-1994 compliant firmware, like
used by SUN (for example).
I don't want to appear to be offensive in regards to this project
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:02:38PM -0600, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
Have a look at OpenBIOS:
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/
The project wants to create an IEEE 1275-1994 compliant firmware, like
used by SUN (for
Hello,
I have a system with ABIT BX-133/RAID mother-board, and run
Gentus Linux booted from /dev/hde, which is UDMA/100 IBM-DTLA-307030 drive.
The following lines of the boot-log can provide information about
the system (kernel version 2.2.15-3.0).
Would it be possible to boot kernel 2.4.x
Miles Lane wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-5007472.html
Hi,
I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has
no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor"
machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working
on this independantly.
These systems seems to
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Grant Grundler wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Additionally, the same problem is true for ISA memory, when it exist
obviously.
Really? I expected ISA memory to look like reguler uncacheable memory
and the drivers would simply dereference the address. But I'm not
There is definitely something strange going on here.
As the bonnie test below shows, the SCSI disk used
for my tests should vastly outperform the old IDE one:
---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
Seagate -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char-
We do have broken interrupt controllers in this respect. We already have a
way of handling it. Ben, take a look at set_lost().
Heh, I know, thanks ;)
However, our current scheme implies a hack to __sti() that I'd like to get
rid of since it adds an overhead allover the place that could
Notice also that by default ssh opens stdin/stdout blocking, and can
relatively easily deadlock if the pipes it talks over really want to do
a write before a read or the other way round.
You can try compile the following file, put it in the same directory
as ssh, and then run rsync over this
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:39:32PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:19:28 -0600,
"Steven J. Hill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no idea why the 1023 limit is coming up considering 2.4.2 and
LILO were working just fine together and I have a newer BIOS that has
not problems
Hi folks,
this is a list of patches I collected while looking at the memory
management sources. Two patches might improve the performance of your
box. The others are more or less cosmetic.
This mail is sent with a kernel using these patches.
Here is a list sorted with decreasing importance:
Ulrich Kunitz writes:
patch-uk6In 2.4.x _page_hashfn divides struct address_space pointer
with a parameter derived from the size of struct
inode. Deriving this parameter from the size of struct
address_space makes more sense -- at least for me.
Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated
blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte
aligned, for example?
Later,
Kenn
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:26:38AM +0800, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:40:33PM +1100, CaT wrote:
[snip]
Feb 11 22:30:18 theirongiant kernel: eepro100: cmd_wait for(0x70) timedout
with(0x70)!
Please try the attached patch.
Actually, it's designed to solve another
Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated
blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte
aligned, for example?
There are people who assume 16byte alignment guarantees. I dont think anyone
has formally specified the guarantee beyond 4 bytes tho
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To
Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated
blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte
aligned, for example?
4-byte alignment is guaranteed on 32-bit cpus, 8-byte alignment on
64-bit cpus.
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What does everybody think of the idea of trying to write a RISC PROM-like
BIOS for the x86 architecture?
I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a while, and after I got
my first SGI I realized that something like this would be fairly useful.
Basically, I'm wondering if anybody is
Greetings.
I contacted Donald Becker (mainainer of sundance driver according to the
comments) about this issue who told me that he wasn't in charge of the 2.4
driver anymore and suggested to ask on the list.
My vanilla Linux 2.4.2 system has some trouble using the D-Link DFE-550TX
network
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Mircea Damian wrote:
Call me idiot too but please explain what is wrong here:
What is wrong is that this is the kernel list, not the LILO list.
root@taz:~# lilo -v
LILO version 21.7, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Device 0x0300: Invalid
Douglas Gilbert wrote:
There is definitely something strange going on here.
As the bonnie test below shows, the SCSI disk used
for my tests should vastly outperform the old IDE one:
First thank you and others with my clueless investigation about
the module loading under Debian GNU/Linux. (I
I finally spent some time fixing up the maestro driver. lots of
feature additions had backed up, and the source was rotting. Its still
gross, but at least its cleaned up a bit. "It works for me" on my
pentium with an ESS maestro2 engineering board, but laptops will be
another story entirely.
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote:
Miles Lane wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-5007472.html
Hi,
I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has
no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor"
machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working
on
On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:24:57 +1100,
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do builds in /usr/src/linux, which is a symlink
to /usr/src/linux-akpm. The recent `mkdep' changes
have broken this practice most horridly. When searching
.hdepend, `make' doesn't recognise that nested headers
have
Hi,
To discover possible locking limitations to scalability, I have collected
locking statistics on a 2-way, 4-way, and 8-way performing as networked
database servers. I patched the [48]-way kernels with Kravetz's multiqueue
patch in the hope that mitigating runqueue_lock contention
Hi,
Whenever I write a substantial amount of data (200mb) to
disk, I get these messages. The disks lock for about 10
seconds and then come back for about 10 seconds again.
This continues until the data is successfully written.
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hde:
Alexander Viro wrote:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, TimO wrote:
eax: ebx: ecx: edx:
[snip]
EIP; c0142a52 get_new_inode+b2/160 =
Trace; c0142ca6 iget4+b6/d0
Trace; c0145f01 proc_get_inode+41/120
Trace; c014601a proc_read_super+3a/b0
Trace;
Hello,
I'm a senior Student in electronic Engineering. A lot of my work takes
place inside the network-part of the kernel, but now I'm confronted with
time. I designed a hardware-board whitch trys to synchronize
network-monitors by GPS. Electronicly this board is tested, and it has an
hardware
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
Ulrich Kunitz writes:
patch-uk6 In 2.4.x _page_hashfn divides struct address_space pointer
with a parameter derived from the size of struct
inode. Deriving this parameter from the size of struct
http://playground.sun.com/1275/
http://www.firmworks.com/
If memory serves, you said...
What does everybody think of the idea of trying to write a RISC PROM-like
BIOS for the x86 architecture?
I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a while, and after I got
my first SGI I
Linus has spoken, and 2.4.x now requires swap = 2x RAM.
I think I missed this. What possible value does this have?
A good write-up of the discussion can be found at:
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010126_104.html#2
My concern is that if there continues to be a 2GB swap
Its an awfully large diff, so it can be fetched from:
http://www.zabbo.net/maestro/patches/2.2.18-mega-1.diff.gz
if this works I'll officially submit it and make the same sorts of
changes to 2.4.
I'd love to test this on my Dell 5000e (Maestro 2E) but it's pretty
impractical for me to
Because the original question was:
"I've been tossing the idea around in my head for a while, and after
I got my first SGI I realized that something like this would be fairly
useful. Basically, I'm wondering if anybody is already doing something
like this (not linuxBIOS, though the code for that
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" Frédéric L. W. Meunier" wrote:
Correction. I can umount the partitions, but I get
the
following message:
"can't link lock file /etc/mtab~: No such file or
directory (use -n flag to override)"
And /etc/mtab isn't updated.
Is your
Erwin Six wrote:
Hello,
I'm a senior Student in electronic Engineering. A lot of my work takes
place inside the network-part of the kernel, but now I'm confronted with
time. I designed a hardware-board whitch trys to synchronize
I would study the xntpd daemon furthur before trying to
Boris Dragovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i have compaq presario 1245 and kernel 2.4.2 does not do power off on
shutdown although all necessary kernel options are compiled in..
Go hassle Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this. He loves
feedback.
[...]
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Daniel Stutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
APM support for Lifebook C 6185 is broken since 2.4.1-ac1.
While trying to go in suspend mode the system hangs.
Go hassle Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this. He likes
feedback.
[...]
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Joseph Pingenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When suspending my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1605CDS; BIOS set to
suspend to disk) with Debian 2.2r2's 'apm -s', the screen blanks and
then the system locks up hard (not even the power button works). In
Go hassle Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In ac5 the USB or related changes broke things for this system I
upgraded, this bug still exists in ac11.
I get the following messages on the order of about 50/second.
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 20, frame# 0
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 30, frame# 0
They repeat forever evenly,
The recent changes to mkdep can create incorrect dependencies when
(a) the kernel source is a symlink and
(b) you cd to the symlink and
(c) your shell exports PWD.
This one line patch against 2.4.3-pre2 gives consistent results.
Please report any problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index:
Hello all,
I have been telling this story to a few people, and nobody seems to have a
clue about what is going on... Alan suggested me to post a description of
the problem to this list, so this is what I am doing.
So, I had a Dell Inspiron 5000 which worked great for a while. It was
running a
Does anyone know whereabouts I could go to get an index of all
configurations options (i.e. drivers, etc.) that are available in the
latest Linux kernel? I am waiting on a kernel mode driver for my USB
digital camera, but I don't want to go ahead and download the full 24Mb
just to find out if the
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Erik Mouw wrote:
Have a look at OpenBIOS:
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/OpenBIOS/
The project wants to create an IEEE 1275-1994 compliant firmware, like
used by SUN (for example).
I'd like to see something like SRM; but with better support.
(SRM is the 'BIOS' for
milkplus:~# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount= 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq= 0 (off)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 8 (on)
geometry = 2584/240/63, sectors = 39070080,
You could try turning off DMA (rebuild your kernel again, and turn off "use
DMA by default").
Would this be in any way different from just `hdparm -d0 /dev/hda'?
UDMA is known to work reliably only with a (reasonably
broad) subset of chipsets, and it is likely that laptop chipsets get the
Does anyone know whereabouts I could go to get an index of all
configurations options (i.e. drivers, etc.) that are available in the
latest Linux kernel? I am waiting on a kernel mode driver for my USB
digital camera, but I don't want to go ahead and download the full 24Mb
just to find out if the
1) ES1371 driver in 2.4.2 produces high-pitched buzzing instead of sound.
2) AudioPCI/97 card in friend's Duron-based machine (very similar to mine,
but different soundcard) works fine under Mandrake 7.1 stock kernel
(2.2.15-4mdk), but produces only loud, high-pitched buzzing noises when
used
} Also, we currently don't use the same mecanism as i386, and since Linus
} expressed his desire to have irq.c become generic, I'm trying to make sure
} I fully understand it before merging in PPC the bits that I didn't merge
} them yet.
More generic in terms of using irq_desc[] and some similar
y Would it be possible to boot kernel 2.4.x from the UDMA/100 drive?
Yes.
y in http://www.linux-ide.org/ultra100.html it is not mentioned if
y the patches can help with boot.
You shouldn't need Andre's patches.
b
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I still get huge over-runs with fbdev (much improved, though).
Andrew, are you still working on it? If so, I'm happy to keep you
up-to-date on performance WRT Linux/PPC.
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From: "J Sloan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My take on it is that unisys is an example of brain damage
and it's easiest to ignore/work around them rather than
trying to get them out of bed with microsoft. Nature will
eventually take it's course with unisys as it did with Dec.
jjs, you can take that
From: "Miles Lane" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has
no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor"
machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working
on this independantly.
Miles, if these babies are the 32 processor monsters that UniSys
has
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote:
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:03:26AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
If anybody as a good idea to make this code auto-balancing,
please let me know.
I have no idea for auto-balancing but another idea: It's one possibility
to let the user choose when
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ulrich Kunitz wrote:
patch-uk2 makes use of the pgd, pmd and pte quicklists for x86 too;
risky: there might be a reason that 2.4.x doesn't use the
quicklists.
I remember these being taken out (long ago), but not why. Anyone?
-Mike
This is just the kernel-doc parts; the .tmpl file entry is missing until
i get the chance to sync up with Alan again.
--- linux-2.4.2/include/asm-i386/bitops.h Wed Feb 21 17:09:56 2001
+++ linux-willy/include/asm-i386/bitops.h Mon Mar 5 00:39:28 2001
@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@
#define
I finally managed to get the interrupt handler running successfully. The
problem was, if you run the driver in debug mode, the interrupt handler goes
crazy, this also happened to me on 2.2.x.
Now the driver appears to be running successfully, but I still cannot pass
traffic through, any clue of
Hi!
I do not yet know details, but it worked in 2.4.1 and it does not work
now:
Mar 5 09:12:05 bug cardmgr[69]: initializing socket 1
Mar 5 09:12:05 bug cardmgr[69]: socket 1: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
Mar 5 09:12:05 bug cardmgr[69]: module //pcmcia/ide_cs.o not
available
Mar 5 09:12:06 bug
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You might even score!
>
> Of course its attitudes like that which leads them to have to set up their
> own mailing lists, and contribute to the rather low count of women on the
> kernel credits
And makes some men wish they weren't...guilt by
Andrew Morton wrote:
> This patch fixes it. Interrupts are enabled across all console operations.
>
> It's still somewhat a work-in-progress.
The patch applies OK against 2.4.3-pre1
At the end of make bzImage I got
kerne/kernel.o(.text+0xcd00): undefined reference to 'in_interrupt'
PR
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>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > This patch fixes it. Interrupts are enabled across all console operations.
> >
> > It's still somewhat a work-in-progress.
>
> The patch applies OK against 2.4.3-pre1
> At the end of make bzImage I got
> kerne/kernel.o(.text+0xcd00):
> - Major revamp of printk(). The approach taken in printk() is to try
> to acquire the (new) console_sem. If we succeed, the output is
> placed into the log buffer and is printed to the consoles. If we fail
> to acquire the semaphore we just buffer the output in the log buffer
> and
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, David wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why 2.4 insists on stuffing as much as
> possible into swap?
Yes.. the VM is being tuned. The latest changes result in overly
agressive caching with some work loads.
For people who are running into this, please edit mm/vmscan.c
ctrl_alt_del() is called from hard interrupt context.
It traverses the reboot_notifier_list. Many of the
callouts on that list are not designed to be called
in this context.
DAC960_Finalise()
Calls remove_proc_entry() within interrupt context.
remove_proc_entry uses
Manfred Spraul wrote:
>
> > - Major revamp of printk(). The approach taken in printk() is to try
> > to acquire the (new) console_sem. If we succeed, the output is
> > placed into the log buffer and is printed to the consoles. If we fail
> > to acquire the semaphore we just buffer the
Hi!
> > Transmit keycodes is AFAIK not implemented in official drivers.
>
> Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but the kernel has had a
> keycode mode since before 1.0.
I meant ability for application to simulate pressing "shift" or
"pageup". I do not believe we have that feature.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:32:35AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Code in parisc-linux CVS (based on 2.4.0) does boot on my OB800
> (133Mhz Pentium), C3000, and A500 with PCI-PCI bridge support
> working. I'm quite certain PCI-PCI bridge configuration (ie BIOS
> didn't configure the bridge)
>In particular, if an edge-triggered interrupt comes in on an x86 IO-APIC
>while that interrupt is disabled, enabling the interrupt will have caused
>that irq to get dropped. And if it gets dropped, it will never ever happen
>again: the interrupt line is now active, and there will never be
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 12:40:14PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Transmit keycodes is AFAIK not implemented in official drivers.
> >
> > Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but the kernel has had a
> > keycode mode since before 1.0.
>
> I meant ability for application to simulate pressing
Hi,
I'm trying to use the 2.4.1 Kernel but I have some troubles with my
ATAPI Matsushita UJDA510 DVD (Intel 82371AB/EP PCI Bus Master IDE
Controler).
It works perfekt with CD-Rom but when I try to read a ISO 9660 DVD I got
an error.
I can mount the DVD and I can list the complet content but I
>LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
>'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
>
>Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-pre1
>Fatal: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1274 > 1023)
>
> I have no idea why the 1023 limit is coming up
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