In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Here is an attempt at a possible version of synchronize_kernel() that
should work on a preemptible kernel. I haven't tested it yet.
It's close, but...
Those who suggest that we don't do preemtion on SMP make this much
easier (synchronize_kernel() is a
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, mythos wrote:
Does anyone know why fualhead is not working anymore?
I just get a screen with rubbish on the second head.
Also when kernel loads and and registers fb1 I lose signal
on the second head.
Probably a question for the xpert list ([EMAIL PROTECTED])...
What
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Relson wrote:
At 03:06 PM 3/30/01, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Bruno Avila wrote:
I can't find this anywhere. What is the version of the tools to
compile linux kernel 0.0.0.1 (../Historic)? And where can i find them?
Well, first you have
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:17:08PM +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
why not simply write:
define_bool CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT $CONFIG_PARPORT
instead?
Because it isn't that simple. PARIDE works with parport, or without
parport, but if parport is a module then PARIDE must be
One of the reasons I read the kernel mailing list is that it's educational
and fascinating to see the discussion between the kernel developers.
This weekend (including today) many of the well known Linux developers are
at the kernel summit meeting.
I'm sure that having a face to face meeting
Dualhead is not working with the current kernel(2.4.3).
With 2.4.2 it was working just fine.
I have not used any special compiler flags,just the usual ones
and I am not loading XFree.
Also does anyone know why when I change from Xfree to console
most of the times the console is corrupted..?
This
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Relson wrote:
At 03:06 PM 3/30/01, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Bruno Avila wrote:
I can't find this anywhere. What is the version of the
tools to compile linux kernel 0.0.0.1 (../Historic)? And
where can i find
http://lwn.net/2001/0329/kernel.php3
The LWN kernel editor will apparently be doing some reporting for the
event.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:01:09PM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
snip
Is anything like that available? I'm really hoping that some of the people
present at least post summaries
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
In 2.4.2-ac9, max_sectors support was added to the SCSI midlayer. I was
somewhat expecting to see that make it into 2.4.3, but it seems not.
Can anyone shed some light on why?
thanks
- jim
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:01:09PM -0800, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
However... for those of us who are curious, is there a web site somewhere
with information about the goings-on? What would be really nice is web cams,
or a RealAudio feed from the meetings.
There isn't anything being broadcast
Hi, kernel developers.
This is one other try to make kernel sources gcc-3.0 friendly. This cleans
some muti-line asm strings in checksum.h and floppy.h (this were the only
ones reported in my kernel build, perhaps there are more in drivers I do
not use).
I have not tested the changes with older
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
However... for those of us who are curious, is there a web site somewhere
with information about the goings-on? What would be really nice is web cams,
or a RealAudio feed from the meetings.
I don't have specific info, but the meetings are being
Hi!
Is the computer otherwise idle?
I've seen one unexplainable report with atm problems that
disappeared
(!) if a kernel compile was running.
I've seen similar bugs. If you hook something on schedule_tq and
forget
to set current-need_resched, this is exactly what you get.
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
You cannot expect that all people will instantly start using the
latest driver from your Web site, immediately. Especially considering
I guess I expect people posting on LK to read it. There have been
announcements for all the driver versions on that list, I've
Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
Does anyone know why fualhead is not working anymore?
I just get a screen with rubbish on the second head.
Also when kernel loads and and registers fb1 I lose signal
on the second head.
...
With 2.4.2 it was working just fine.
I have also noticed problems with the 2.4.3 release. I have a
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Relson wrote:
At 03:06 PM 3/30/01, Alan Olsen wrote:
snip
I have a friend who's a flintknapper. He's been doing it for decades and
does good work. I'm sure he could set you up with raw materials or with
finished
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Dr S.M. Huen wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
Yeah, but then you have to find the buffalo and that gets hard. (Actually
Linus used a carabou, but those are even harder to find...)
I thought he used GNU? :-)
It was out of bullocks. ]:
[EMAIL
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:55:01PM +0200, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote:
The kernel configuration is the same in both 2.2.17 and 2.2.19.
Perhaps, the problem is not in the ppa module, but in the parport,
parport_pc or parport_probe modules.
There
Linux 2.4.3, Debian Woody. 2.4.2 works without problems. However, in
2.4.3, pcnet32 loads, gives an error message:
Mar 30 18:45:09 obsidian kernel: pcnet32_probe_pci: found device
0x001022.0x002000
Mar 30 18:45:09 obsidian kernel: ioaddr=0x00b800
resource_flags=0x000101
Mar 30 18:45:09
I am reposting... the oops call stack didn't show up correctly.
EIP; c012c504 free_block+84/d8 =
Trace; c011b77a do_softirq+5a/88
Trace; c012c82a kfree+72/98
Trace; c01d00fd kfree_skbmem+25/80
Trace; c01d024b __kfree_skb+f3/f8
Trace; c01d0d1d skb_free_datagram+1d/24
Trace; c0203a61
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
There is a problem with the power management code for console.c
The current code calls do_blank_screen(0); on PM_SUSPEND, and
unblank_screen() on PM_RESUME.
The problem happens when X is the current display while putting the
machine to sleep. The
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
It looks like the tulip driver isn't as up-to-date as the one from
2.4.2-ac20 - when is 2.4.3-ac1 due? :-) I got NETDEV WATCHDOG errors shortly
after rebooting with 2.4.3, although these were of the "slow/packet lossy"
type I got with 2.4.2-ac20
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Scott G. Miller wrote:
Linux 2.4.3, Debian Woody. 2.4.2 works without problems. However, in
2.4.3, pcnet32 loads, gives an error message:
hrm, can you try 2.4.2-acXX as well?
I pretty much just merged pcnet32 patches from there.
I should be getting a pcnet32 test card
James Simmons wrote:
Are you using fbcon? If so, and if it goes away after starting X, then it
is the "fbcon kills interrupt latency" problem.
Ug!!! This is getting bad. Give me some time. I plan on releasing a new
vesafb using MMX to help speed up the drawing routines. It will help alot
Jeff Garzik wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
It looks like the tulip driver isn't as up-to-date as the one from
2.4.2-ac20 - when is 2.4.3-ac1 due? :-) I got NETDEV
WATCHDOG errors shortly
after rebooting with 2.4.3, although these were of the
"slow/packet lossy"
Hi!
Are you using fbcon? If so, and if it goes away after starting X, then it
is the "fbcon kills interrupt latency" problem.
Ug!!! This is getting bad. Give me some time. I plan on releasing a new
vesafb using MMX to help speed up the drawing routines. It will help alot
with the
James Simmons wrote:
Ug!!! This is getting bad. Give me some time. I plan on releasing a new
vesafb using MMX to help speed up the drawing routines. It will help alot
with the latency issues. I also know using ARM assembly we can greatly
reduce the latency issues.
There is another issue with
Hi!
Ug!!! This is getting bad. Give me some time. I plan on releasing a new
vesafb using MMX to help speed up the drawing routines. It will help alot
with the latency issues. I also know using ARM assembly we can greatly
reduce the latency issues.
There is another issue with vesafb.
Pavel Machek wrote:
You have same toshiba satellite as me, right?
Yes.
-- Jamie
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Subject says it all. On my laptop which is running 2.4.0, while the
machine is completely idle "top" reports kapm-idled as usin about 45% of
the CPU. The remaining 55% is reported as idle time.
When the machine gets a little more active, the CPU time attributed to
kapm-idled decreases while
J Brook wrote:
Does anyone know why fualhead is not working anymore?
I just get a screen with rubbish on the second head.
Also when kernel loads and and registers fb1 I lose signal
on the second head.
On G400 there is no signal on second head after poweron. So you cannot
lose it ;-) On
Hello everyone,
I recently upgraded kernel to 2.4.2 on 3 machines.
These machines use DHCP.
2 machines have 3c905B(cyclone) and
1 machine has 3c905c(Tornado).
At boot time, there are over 1 minute delay
to bring up network interface eth0 at 3c905B machines.
There is no problems when booting with
Mostlt RH 6.2 on sparc64. 2.2.18 works fine. A strace(1) of a failed
mdir(1) ends:
open("/dev/fd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
SYS_63()= 0
flock(3, LOCK_SH|LOCK_NB) = 0
ioctl(3, FDGETPRM, 0xefffde98) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
close(3)
Hello everyone,
My machine has ASUS CUV4X-E mainboard with Award BIOS.
Using poweroff command, I can power off my machine
with kernel 2.2.x.
But with kernel 2.4.x, this machine doesn't change
to soft-off(S5) state after poweroff command enters.
The last message is "Could not enter S5".
However,
there's discussion on irc.linpeople.org and irc.slashnet.org... but I'm
not sure the kernel needs an offical channel...
joelja
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how do you hold a real-time chat with people around the world? the fact
that the key
Hi. I really can't get UDMA66 with the VIA driver. I tried
everything, also a new motherboard (ASUS A7Pro) with a
ATA100/ATA66 cable (using both ends...)!
All I get are the usual CRC error messages.
So, there's no UDMA66 for any vt82c686a ? I'm using 2.4.3.
If there's no UDMA66, what are the
You have same toshiba satellite as me, right?
Yes
Is this the NeoMagic chipset?
MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that
renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.
James Simmons [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] /|
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Hen, Shmulik wrote:
Just some general questions:
1) Is there anywhere a list that describes what is intended to be in 2.5.x ?
2) Are there any early releases of 2.5.x ?
if it's anything like 2.1 or 2.3 we need a bit more 2.4 tidying till
somebody decides some major
Probably the lack of hardware area copies has something to do with
this. However, who isn't familiar with xterm "jump scroll" mode?
That's nice and fast.
Could such a thing be implemented in the console driver?
I believe so. It would be simple: if there's too much activit, defer
I had patch which tried that at one point. Just try all 2^n numbers
= size until it succeeds.
Hum. Is this the only way we can solve this problem? I assume you end of
with most of but not all the video memory using MTRR then. Kind of sucks!!
MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly
I took to using X, with a single screen size xterm to present the
illusion of console mode.
Cute trick. I have seen some slow text mode cards. As time goes on it will
get worst since text mode support is not the prime goal anymore. Especially
now that you see graphical BIOS interfaces. Some
The console driver does not actually use 2.5MB. Does it make sense to
use an MTRR for the smaller power-of-two region?
If we implement a font cache in the future it could. Also that extra
memory is used to allow scrollback. We could break up the size of the
region. Have it
Hi Jamie,
Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On that theme of power management with X problems, I have been having
trouble with my laptop crashing when the lid is closed, instead of
suspending as it used to. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT.
Can you please try adding
Hi Jamie,
Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subject says it all. On my laptop which is running 2.4.0, while the
machine is completely idle "top" reports kapm-idled as usin about 45% of
the CPU. The remaining 55% is reported as idle time.
This is normal behaviour ... the current
Hi,
I am not subscribed to this list. Please email me with any
questions.
I've been trying unsuccessfully to use 2.4 kernels for a while
now. I wanted to use DRI and it seems I need a 2.4 kernel for it to work
but I have the following problem:
description:
when I go to pretty
Stephen Rothwell writes:
Hi Jamie,
Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Subject says it all. On my laptop which is running 2.4.0, while the
machine is completely idle "top" reports kapm-idled as usin about 45% of
the CPU. The remaining 55% is reported as idle time.
This is normal
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