Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-08 Thread Larry McVoy
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:44:11AM +0100, Christoph Rohland wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a > > modular kernel. > > > > Perhaps IBM should get together with SGI, HP and other

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-08 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Michael, On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a > modular kernel. > > Perhaps IBM should get together with SGI, HP and other interested > parties and start an Advanced Linux Kernel Project. Then they can > run off

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Sigh. That's not the real hang position. I needed to step slower. kdb> ss 0xc01100f8 pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x40: outw %ax,(%dx) SS trap at 0xc01100fa (pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x42) 0xc01100fa pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x42: popl %ebx kdb> ss 0xc01100fa

Re: Stange NFS messages - 2.2.18pre19

2000-11-08 Thread Sasi Peter
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Scott McDermott wrote: > Sasi Peter on Tue 7/11 23:28 +0100: > > I'm getting this under moderate NFS load: > > Nov 6 17:39:56 iq kernel: svc: server socket destroy delayed (sk_inuse: 1) > > Nov 6 17:40:08 iq kernel: svc: unknown program 100227 (me 13) > > Nov 6

kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!

2000-11-08 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hello, I'm seeing the message periodically: Nov 8 09:52:59 kgate last message repeated 5 times Nov 8 11:26:54 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout! Nov 8 11:56:12 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout! Nov 8 14:38:45 kgate kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
More data: kdb> bp pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x3a Instruction(i) BP #1 at 0xc01100f2 (pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x3a) is enabled globally adjust 1 kdb> go Instruction(i) breakpoint #1 at 0xc01100f2 (adjusted) 0xc01100f2 pci_conf1_write_config_word+0x3a: orl$0xcfc,%edx Entering kdb

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:19:13PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > > I am going thru the steps atm. The JE driver also hangs. > > Thanks for doing this. np. > > More information. I have an external USB 4 port hub, in which I have one > > logitech mouse at the moment. I can cold

Re: Stange NFS messages - 2.2.18pre19

2000-11-08 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:15:38 -0500, Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sasi Peter on Tue 7/11 23:28 +0100: >> I'm getting this under moderate NFS load: >> Nov 6 17:39:56 iq kernel: svc: server socket destroy delayed (sk_inuse: 1) >> Nov 6 17:40:08 iq kernel: svc: unknown program

Re: Spew from test11-pre1

2000-11-08 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 04:14:39PM -0800, Robert Lynch wrote: > No oops, but right after I installed test11-pre1, then tried to > access a Windows box as a VNC client, this message started > getting continuously dumped by syslog: > === > ... > Nov 8 15:32:01 ives kernel: eth0: card

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
> The NMI oopser for UP only trips in when the cpu is spinning. If the > cpu is in a halt state then NMI does not run. But in a halt state you > should be able to activate kdb via the pause key. The only time you > cannot get kdb via pause is if interrupts are disabled (but then the > cpu

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:19:13PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > I am going thru the steps atm. The JE driver also hangs. Thanks for doing this. > More information. I have an external USB 4 port hub, in which I have one > logitech mouse at the moment. I can cold boot and reboot to my heart's >

Re: B/W G3 - big IDE problems with 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-08 Thread Derrik Pates
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > What is your chipset, CMD646 rev 5 Ultra DMA 33 ??? Yep. I've tried building with the CMD64x driver, and that didn't help matters, if you were wondering. Any thoughts? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School|_ #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL

Re: B/W G3 - big IDE problems with 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-08 Thread Andre Hedrick
My PPC with an ACARD addon PPC card. AEC6260R: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 68 AEC6260R: chipset revision 1 AEC6260R: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later AEC6260R: ROM enabled at 0x8081 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0800-0x0807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at

Re: Persistent module storage - modutils design

2000-11-08 Thread Keith Owens
On 8 Nov 2000 21:09:49 -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Remember that we cannot rely on ANY form of persistent storage to be >available in the beginning; / may very well be readonly (on a ROM, >say.) Since that means that we can't rely on writable storage being >available

Re: Persistent module storage - modutils design

2000-11-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 15:52:47 +1100, Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> Looks like persistent data has to be stored in /lib/modules/persist (no >> , see earlier mail). > >You need versions: binary data is too prone to change (proven kernel

Re: Persistent module storage - modutils design

2000-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Modules are loaded before non-root file systems are mounted, damn! > > modules.conf already breaks FHS lib/ badly enough. Modules loaded > before /var is mounted won't get

Re: need urgent help with 2.2.17 + ipchains

2000-11-08 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > hi! > > i have the following very nasty problem. > everytime i execute ipchains -F [rule] my box freezes for 25 minutes! > i run slackware on 2.2.17. You mean `ipchains -F [chain]'? It's possible that your rules could be ordered so that this command

Re: Persistent module storage - modutils design

2000-11-08 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > On Tue, 07 Nov 2000 10:30:39 -0300, > Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Note! This _has_ to be in the / filesystem so it works before mounting the > >rest of the stuff (if ever). This would rule out /var, and leave just > >/lib/modules/.

2.4 test10 bug

2000-11-08 Thread Eric Reischer
When cross compiling a PowerPC kernel on an i386 machine, got the following error: binfmt_elf.c: In function 'create_elf_tables': binfmt_elf.c:166: 'CLOCKS_PER_SEC' undeclared (first use in this function) binfmt_elf.c:166: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once binfmt_elf.c:166: for

B/W G3 - big IDE problems with 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-08 Thread Derrik Pates
I've been trying Debian woody for PowerPC on a blue-and-white G3 tower machine (PPC750/350 MHz, 192 MB RAM). Finally got yaboot working, so now I'm playing with getting 2.4.x going (in part to get the built-in support for Mac-on-Linux). However, when I try to boot the kernel, I get errors about

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
I am going thru the steps atm. The JE driver also hangs. More information. I have an external USB 4 port hub, in which I have one logitech mouse at the moment. I can cold boot and reboot to my heart's delight fine. But if I unplug/plug in the mouse and reboot, it will hang. Note, I have to

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:27:29PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > I just recompiled using the JE driver and it doesn't lock up on boot. If you have the time, could you please do the debugging steps that Keith Owens just listed. It might enable us to determine what is wrong with the usb-uhci.o

Re: [PATCH] media/radio [check_region() removal... ]

2000-11-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Patch looks generally ok. Some of the whitespace/formatting changes are > > questionable, I usually leave that up to the maintainer unless it is > > very gratuitously opposite to CodingStyle. > > > > These

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread Horst von Brand
David Feuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on > this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA > network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? I've got a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4280xdvd + 3com cardbus

VPN Masquerade patch going into 2.2.18final?

2000-11-08 Thread Dan Browning
Would you care to comment on the VPN Masquerade patch that has been floating around? Will it make it into an official 2.2.x kernel soon? The VPN-Masq HOWTO seems to think it is going into 2.2.18 proper. ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn-2.2.17.patch.gz - To

[2.2pre] crash after unloading agpgart and loading mga DRM module

2000-11-08 Thread Yann Dirson
I could reproduce this with 2.2.18pre17 + Andrea's VM-global patch (-7), pre20 with and without the VM patch. Mainboard is a FIC VA503+, video is a G200. Better run this with everything mounted RO: $ insmod agpgart $ rmmod agpgart $ insmod agpgart $ insmod mga And here we go... I tested a

Re: Stange NFS messages - 2.2.18pre19

2000-11-08 Thread Scott McDermott
Sasi Peter on Tue 7/11 23:28 +0100: > I'm getting this under moderate NFS load: > Nov 6 17:39:56 iq kernel: svc: server socket destroy delayed (sk_inuse: 1) > Nov 6 17:40:08 iq kernel: svc: unknown program 100227 (me 13) > Nov 6 19:06:11 iq kernel: svc: server socket destroy delayed

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread FORT David
David Ford wrote: > You may be in the same boat I'm in then. i82365 is what I used and it worked. > yenta doesn't. Right now I'm stuck with using my USB nic because neither the > kernel's pcmcia or dh pcmcia work for me. > > -d > > Brett wrote: > > > Hey, > [] > > > > "The difference

Errors in 2.4-test11 build

2000-11-08 Thread J . A . Magallon
Trying to build 2.4.0-test11-pre1 I get the following: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/arch/i386/kernel' kgcc -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -traditional -c trampoline.S -o trampoline.o gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `tradcpp0': No such file

OOPS loading cs46xx module, test11-pre1

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.09, 16:07:04 Nov 8 2000 cs461x: Card found at 0xc780 and 0xc700, IRQ 11 cs461x: Voyetra at 0xc780/0xc700, IRQ 11 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address a1d60878 printing eip: a1d60878 *pde = Oops: CPU:

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
I just recompiled using the JE driver and it doesn't lock up on boot. -d Georg Nikodym wrote: > > "DF" == David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DF> Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular > DF> workstation locks up hard as it reaches the following: > > I have a

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
You may be in the same boat I'm in then. i82365 is what I used and it worked. yenta doesn't. Right now I'm stuck with using my USB nic because neither the kernel's pcmcia or dh pcmcia work for me. -d Brett wrote: > Hey, > > I don't know if this counts as a _problem_, > but I need to enable

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:35:36 -0800, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular workstation >locks up hard as it reaches the following: > >usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs >usb.c: registered new driver hub >usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.242 $

Linux 2.4 on Cobalt MiPS servers

2000-11-08 Thread Jason Fayre
Hello, Does the 2.4 series compile on Cobalt Networks MIPS-based servers? There is a cobalt directory under the arch/mips directory. - Jason Fayre Escalation Engineer Cobalt Networks, Inc. http://www.cobalt.com/support - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread Georg Nikodym
> "DF" == David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DF> Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular DF> workstation locks up hard as it reaches the following: I have a similar problem. My work around is to, by hand, modprobe usbmouse, wait, modprobe usb-uhci... - To

Re: Pentium IV-summary

2000-11-08 Thread Prasanna P Subash
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 03:14:22PM -0500, Frank Davis wrote: > 3. 2.4.x may support processor speeds up to 100GHz, as well as Pentium IV. Linus >will have a Pentium IV available soon, but can someone test the kernel with a Pentium >IV sooner? I've gotta Pentium IV 800MHz working on

ISSUE: Locks up on boot with HPT370

2000-11-08 Thread Christopher Thompson
Resubmitting this bug as it happens both on -test10 and, I just verified, -test11-pre1. (using the bug report form. if you wish to contact me, please do so off-list as I am not subscribed.) 1. Locks up on boot with HPT370 2. Using kernel 2.4.0-test10, my machine gets to the part of the

[bug] usb-uhci locks up on boot half the time

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
Ok, in test10, for every 2 out of 5 boots, this particular workstation locks up hard as it reaches the following: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.242 $ time 15:53:47 Nov 8 2000 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB

Re: [PATCH] media/radio [check_region() removal... ]

2000-11-08 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Patch looks generally ok. Some of the whitespace/formatting changes are > questionable, I usually leave that up to the maintainer unless it is > very gratuitously opposite to CodingStyle. > These drivers seem to be unmantained :) Anyway if this is a

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread Brett
Hey, I don't know if this counts as a _problem_, but I need to enable pci support to get pcmcia/cardbus activated. Is this really necessary ?? My current kernels work fine without pci support, and sure, enabling it won't hurt, just make the kernel bigger, but why is the restriction there ?

Spew from test11-pre1

2000-11-08 Thread Robert Lynch
No oops, but right after I installed test11-pre1, then tried to access a Windows box as a VNC client, this message started getting continuously dumped by syslog: === ... Nov 8 15:32:01 ives kernel: eth0: card reports no RX buffers. Nov 8 15:32:04 ives kernel: eth0: card reports no resources.

Re: Pentium IV-summary

2000-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Is this revamp only for processors that actually support the > > CPUID-instruction, or will you fix the CPU-detection for non-CPUID > > processors too?! There are quite a few

Re: [PATCH] media/radio [check_region() removal... ]

2000-11-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Patch looks generally ok. Some of the whitespace/formatting changes are questionable, I usually leave that up to the maintainer unless it is very gratuitously opposite to CodingStyle. Some of the driver messages ("foo version 1.0") are purposefully printed -after-, not before, the device is

Re: Nvidia GeForce2 kernel driver - kernel 2.4.0 test-10

2000-11-08 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:52:41 Anthony Chatman wrote: > Speaking of Nvidia, I have a Nvidia GeForce2, and had problems loading > the NV kernel module with a patched test10 kernel (i was running test9 > before). I took a look at the test10 patch, and noticed the following 2 > lines were taken

PATCH: rd - deadlock removal

2000-11-08 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, There is a problem with drivers/block/rd.c which can lead to a deadlock an SMP hardware. The scenario goes: Processor A Processor B enter _make_request in getblk (or elsewhere) (or generic_unplug_device)

Re: Looking for better VM

2000-11-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > BTW. Why does your OOM killer in 2.4 try to kill process that mmaped > most memory? mmap is hamrless. mmap on files can't eat memory and > swap. Because the thing is too stupid to take that into consideration? :) Btw, if your mmap()ed file still

[PATCH] media/radio [check_region() removal... ]

2000-11-08 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi! Patch against 2.4.0-test11-pre1. It replaces check_region() by request_region(), fixes some small bugs and tries to cleanup a bit radio drivers... I have just seen 240t11p1ac1 and I think this patch is superior then ac's radio part ;) Please apply... -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL

Re: fpu now a must in kernel

2000-11-08 Thread David Lang
the problem is that unless your code does the save/restore of the FPU registers you will corrupt user code that does floating point. nothing else in the kernel is supposed to use the FPU, and as a result (almost) no user->kernek->user transitions touch the FPU and therefor the registers don't

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Ford
With a few exceptions, it should work. The problematic systems are few. -d David Feuer wrote: > What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on > this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA > network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? --

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11pre1ac1

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Cox
> * CARDBUS is never defined. Should that be CONFIG_CARDBUS? Yep > * just increment the version number. There's no need to add "a" on the > end... this version number just differentiates us from the 'canonical' > Donald Becker version of epic100.c. Ok > net/atm/pvc: return the error value

Re: fpu now a must in kernel

2000-11-08 Thread Reto Baettig
When you add it to the task switcher, it takes away a lot of cpu cycles during each task switch and slows down your system. I think this was the main idea behind _not_ saving those registers. IMHO, it does not make sense to generally save these registers when nobody else but your driver uses

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > FWIW, I just tested rth's update of your path on my x86 SMP box, and a > laptop with two CardBus bridges (two CardBus slots). Both worked > fine... x86 doesn't use this code at all. Only alpha, arm, and mips. r~ - To unsubscribe

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-08 Thread Richard Henderson
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:03:36AM +0300, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > But actually I'm concerned that all this code doesn't work at all - > see reports from Michal Jaegermann (the bridge acts as if it drops > config space transactions randomly). I have no idea what Michal is seeing. It does,

Re: fpu now a must in kernel

2000-11-08 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:27:29 +1300 > 2 . put the save / restore code in my code (NOT! GOOD! i do not wont to > do it this way it is not the right way) That's how most people do it. -- Timur Tabi - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interactive Silicon -

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11pre1ac1

2000-11-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
the network driver changes look ok except for: epic100: * CARDBUS is never defined. Should that be CONFIG_CARDBUS? * just increment the version number. There's no need to add "a" on the end... this version number just differentiates us from the 'canonical' Donald Becker version of epic100.c.

Re: Kernel oops!

2000-11-08 Thread Venky
Hi, > > I am getting a whole lot of kernel oops, and I am not able to detect any > > pattern. The only thing common is the machine is pretty heavily loaded > > at that time. Am I having a hardware problem here, or is it something > > else? > looks like a memory problem, but i might be wrong.

fpu now a must in kernel

2000-11-08 Thread david
hi i need fast fpu in the kernel for my lexos work so how am i going to do it on the i386 1 . can i add some save / restore code to the task swicher ( the right way ) so when it switchs from user to kernel task its saves the fpu state ? 2 . put the save / restore code in my code (NOT!

test9: running tasks not in run-queue

2000-11-08 Thread Mike Kravetz
I have been playing around with the scheduler in the test9 kernel and noticed that it sometimes chooses tasks to run that are not on the run-queue. This may seem strange, but here is how it happens task A on processor 0, calls __lock_sock() which does the following: void __lock_sock(struct

Re: accessing on-card ram/rom

2000-11-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I looked at the IO-mapping.txt file. It says that > on x86 architecture it should not make any difference. > It also says that "on x86 it _is_ the same memory space. So > on x86 it actually works to just dereference a pointer". > Any inputs on this ? Don't depend on

2.4.0-test10: "fatfs: bogus cluster size"

2000-11-08 Thread Steven_Snyder
Hello. I am attempting to boot off a Compact Flash device which has a UMSDOS filesystem. When I do, I get text that looks like this: Partition check: hdc: hdc1 hdc2 . . hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc: hdc1 hdc2 fatfs: bogus cluster size fatfs: bogus cluster size

Linux 2.4.0test11pre1ac1

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Cox
This is the patches I have in my pending/twiddled with pile at the moment. I'll also send bits of this off to Linus Whats different o Ramfs allows size limiting (very handy when fiddling with PDA's) o Knows the 'kgcc' convention for conectiva/mandrake/red hat o Build ACPI if

RE: accessing on-card ram/rom

2000-11-08 Thread hiren_mehta
I looked at the IO-mapping.txt file. It says that on x86 architecture it should not make any difference. It also says that "on x86 it _is_ the same memory space. So on x86 it actually works to just dereference a pointer". Any inputs on this ? Thanks and regards, -hiren > -Original

Re: accessing on-card ram/rom

2000-11-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
"MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)" wrote: > I have a PCI card which has on-card ram/rom which gets mapped > into pci address space and there is a separate base register > for this memory. Now the question is : can I access this on-card > memory by converting the pci base address into the virtual

Re: panic in reiserfs: _get_block_create_0 gets bh_result->b_data = NULL

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, November 03, 2000 15:56:36 + Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > >> Hi Hans, >> >> Simply starting the validation phase of SPEC SFS with NFS mounted reiserfs >> filesystem panics as shown in the log below. A quick look at

accessing on-card ram/rom

2000-11-08 Thread MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
Hi All, I have a PCI card which has on-card ram/rom which gets mapped into pci address space and there is a separate base register for this memory. Now the question is : can I access this on-card memory by converting the pci base address into the virtual address using bus_to_virt and adding the

Re: Pentium IV-summary

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Cox
> Is this revamp only for processors that actually support the > CPUID-instruction, or will you fix the CPU-detection for non-CPUID > processors too?! There are quite a few processors that can be detected > properly but aren't (for instance, IBM 486slc/slc2/slc3) Linus refused code to ident the

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > But actually I'm concerned that all this code doesn't work at all - > see reports from Michal Jaegermann (the bridge acts as if it drops > config space transactions randomly). I have a lot of suggestions, but > it's a pain to debug something without access to real

Re: Pentium IV-summary##

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Cox
> that overwrites the capability state. It will be fixed in 2.2.18 by Dave Jones. >Should we also look at Peter Anvin's fix for the problem that Linus mentioned? What >are the other features of the Pentium IV should be included in the kernel pending the >capability state fix? I'll send Linus

Re: pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Feuer wrote: > > What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on > this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA > network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? It should, yes. Enable hotplug, cardbus, and 3com vortex/boomerang support...

`smp_num_cpus' redefined

2000-11-08 Thread Timur Tabi
Compiling under 2.4, I get this: /usr/include/linux/smp.h:80: warning: `smp_num_cpus' redefined /usr/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:82: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /usr/include/linux/smp.h:87: warning: `smp_call_function' redefined

pcmcia

2000-11-08 Thread David Feuer
What is the current status of PC-card support? I've seen ominous signs on this list about the state of support I have a laptop with a PCMCIA network card (a 3com thing). Will it work? -- This message has been brought to you by the letter alpha and the number pi. David Feuer [EMAIL

Re: Network error

2000-11-08 Thread Andre Tomt
> Something I seen on a lug. Anyone have a patch for this? > > I'm trying to compile a 2.2.17 kernel. When I do a make bzImage, I get > this error. It seems to be centering on networking areas (nfs, svclock, > tcp, etc.) > > tcp_input.c:1393:52: warning: pasting would not give a valid

Re: malloc(1/0) ??

2000-11-08 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:11:34PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel [snip] > > May I remind you guys that a malloc(0) is equal to a free(). There is no > > way that any mem

Re: continuing VM madness

2000-11-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:42:33PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > add page aging then in theory it'll be as good as 2.2 but in practice who Agreed. Andrea - 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

Re: malloc(1/0) ??

2000-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > The program does not work. A program works if it does what it's supposed to > > do. If you want to argue that this program is supposed to print "ff" > > then

Ethernet stops working in NFS

2000-11-08 Thread Giuliano Pochini
I have a Mac and a PC with a 3com 595 ethernet card. The Mac is the nfs server. When I transfer from the PC to the Mac it's all right. When I transfer a large file (50-100MB) from the Mac to the PC often the connection breaks completely. I can't ping the other machine anymore. Looking at

Re: PCI-PCI bridges mess in 2.4.x

2000-11-08 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:37:44AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > Interesting. I hadn't known that. It didn't actually fail with > the ALI bridge, I just assumed it was a mistake. Can anyone with > docs on non-DEC bridges confirm that this is a common thing? It would be better if someone

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-08 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: > "James A. Sutherland" wrote: > > > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: > > > But, here the customer did run the configure code (he said he did not > > > change anything). Isn't this where the machine should be diagnosed and > > > the right

problem with startx in linux kernel 2.4

2000-11-08 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I ahave installed Red Hat 7.0 kernel ver 2.4.0-test9 After I boot, when I do #startx I get an error as server crash. My processor is Pentium II I am attaching with this mail the error output I get and also /var/log/XFree86.0.log file Please let me know how to fix this

problem with shmat () and > 1GB memory in kernel 2.2.17

2000-11-08 Thread Rolf Fokkens
> Hi! > > Recently we installed extra memory in our Oracle-on-Linux database server, > it now has 1.25 GB. I installed a 2.2.17 kernel with the 2GB option > enabled. I rebooted the machine (a Compaq Proliant 5500 dual PII 450MHz) > and noticed that one of the databases wasn't able to start.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-08 Thread Michael Rothwell
Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a modular kernel. Perhaps IBM should get together with SGI, HP and other interested parties and start an Advanced Linux Kernel Project. Then they can run off and make their scalable, modular, enterprise kernel and the Linus

Re: multiple definition of `__module_kernel_version'

2000-11-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:15:59 -0600, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >../support/schedule.h:16: parse error > >and line 16 says: > >#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,3,0) #include - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

[ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-08 Thread richardj_moore
We've just release version 0.6 of Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) see the IBM Linux Technology Centre's web page DProbes link: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux Some folks expressed an interest in this type of facility recently in discussions concerning

Re: multiple definition of `__module_kernel_version'

2000-11-08 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:08:31 +1100 > In 2.2 you have to > #define __NO_VERSION__ before including module.h in all of the module > objects except one. Search 2.2 drivers for __NO_VERSION__ to see > examples of this. If I do that, I get

Re: multiple definition of `__module_kernel_version'

2000-11-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 14:09:43 -0600, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to port my driver from 2.4 to 2.2. When I try to compile it, I get >several "multiple definition of `__module_kernel_version'" errors: include/linux/module.h was changed in the 2.3 kernels to define

Re: Network error

2000-11-08 Thread Carey M. Drake
Guess: you're using RedHat 7.0 (or somehow else are using a "new" version of gcc). Either use make cc=kgcc for redhat or downgrade gcc to a supported version. James Simmons wrote: > > Something I seen on a lug. Anyone have a patch for this? > > I'm trying to compile a 2.2.17 kernel. When I do

Network error

2000-11-08 Thread James Simmons
Something I seen on a lug. Anyone have a patch for this? I'm trying to compile a 2.2.17 kernel. When I do a make bzImage, I get this error. It seems to be centering on networking areas (nfs, svclock, tcp, etc.) tcp_input.c:1393:52: warning: pasting would not give a valid preprocessing token

Re: sb.o support in 2.4-broken?

2000-11-08 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Torkar wrote: > Jim Bonnet wrote: > > > I am using the 2.4.0-test10 kernel. I have a sound blaster 16 which > > works fine under 2.2.17. > > > > I see that a while back someone posted on this problem previously but > > there were no answers

Re: major problem with linux-2.4.0test10

2000-11-08 Thread Carey M. Drake
Why not just remove the sa lines from /etc/crontab? C. Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, J.D. Hollis wrote: > > > I've been having a problem with memory since 2.4.0test9...for some reason, > > shortly after my system boots, my hard drive begins to seek rapidly for no > > apparent

Re: sb.o support in 2.4-broken?

2000-11-08 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Bonnet wrote: > I am using the 2.4.0-test10 kernel. I have a sound blaster 16 which > works fine under 2.2.17. > > I see that a while back someone posted on this problem previously but > there were no answers I can find.. > > Is support for

Re: Pentium IV-summary

2000-11-08 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:36:21PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Frank Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > 2. There's a bug in get_model_name(), > >cpuid(0x8001, , , , &(c->x86_capability)); > > > > that

Re: Pentium IV-summary

2000-11-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Frank Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 2. There's a bug in get_model_name(), >cpuid(0x8001, , , , &(c->x86_capability)); > > that overwrites the capability state. It will be fixed in 2.2.18 by > Dave Jones.

Re: major problem with linux-2.4.0test10

2000-11-08 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, J.D. Hollis wrote: > I've been having a problem with memory since 2.4.0test9...for some reason, > shortly after my system boots, my hard drive begins to seek rapidly for no > apparent reason, and suddenly about 150MB of my 256MB RAM is filled up with > something gtop labels

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-08 Thread George Anzinger
"James A. Sutherland" wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, George Anzinger wrote: > > But, here the customer did run the configure code (he said he did not > > change anything). Isn't this where the machine should be diagnosed and > > the right options chosen? Need a way to say it is a cross build,

Re: sb.o support in 2.4-broken?

2000-11-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:53:18PM -0800, Jim Bonnet wrote: > I am using the 2.4.0-test10 kernel. I have a sound blaster 16 which > works fine under 2.2.17. > > I see that a while back someone posted on this problem previously but > there were no answers I can find.. > > Is support for

Pentium IV-summary

2000-11-08 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, I think I have summarized the discussion for clarity: 1. rep nop can used with all x86 boxes, unless a valid example can be found where it doesn't work. Athlon works with the rep nop. 2. There's a bug in get_model_name(), cpuid(0x8001, , , , &(c->x86_capability)); that

Pentium IV-summary

2000-11-08 Thread Frank Davis
Hello, I think I have summarized the discussion for clarity: 1. rep nop can used with all x86 boxes, unless a valid example can be found where it doesn't work. Athlon works with the rep nop. 2. There's a bug in get_model_name(), cpuid(0x8001, , , , &(c->x86_capability)); that

multiple definition of `__module_kernel_version'

2000-11-08 Thread Timur Tabi
I'm trying to port my driver from 2.4 to 2.2. When I try to compile it, I get several "multiple definition of `__module_kernel_version'" errors: ver is 2.2.14-6.0 ld -r --print-map --cref -Map tdmcddk.map global.o init.o tiermap.o support.o cccomp.o ccmp_sft.o lz77.o ccmp_s32.o gcmp_sft.o

sb.o support in 2.4-broken?

2000-11-08 Thread Jim Bonnet
I am using the 2.4.0-test10 kernel. I have a sound blaster 16 which works fine under 2.2.17. I see that a while back someone posted on this problem previously but there were no answers I can find.. Is support for soundblaster16 ISA broken in the 2.4 kernel? Compiled in or used as a module I can

Re: Looking for better VM

2000-11-08 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:36:40PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > BTW. Why does your OOM killer in 2.4 try to kill process that mmaped most > memory? mmap is hamrless. mmap on files can't eat memory and swap. Don't complain, build your own and test it ;-) Apply my patch

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