Re: [wip-PATCH] rfi: PAGE_CACHE_SIZE suppoort

2001-07-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote: > > I attacked the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE support in the kernel for the last few days > in an attempt to get multipage PAGE_CACHE_SIZE support working and below > is what I've come up with. It currently boots to single user read only, > doesn't quite have write

[PATCH] Fix fbcon.c compiles error on 2.4.7pre2

2001-07-04 Thread Fang Han
It seems that some part is missing, In AC patch , it have that function. dfbb --- linux/drivers/video/fbcon.c.origThu Jul 5 13:09:55 2001 +++ linux/drivers/video/fbcon.c Thu Jul 5 13:33:32 2001 @@ -1150,13 +1150,11 @@ } } scr_writew(c, d); -

Re: loop device corruption in 2.4.6

2001-07-04 Thread Stefan Traby
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:14:02PM -0400, Mark Swanson wrote: > I get repeatable errors with 2.4.6 patched with the international encryption > patch patch-int-2.4.3.1.bz2 when building loop device filesystems on top of > Reiserfs. Well, exactly this happens here on 2.4.5 and earlier too... I

Re: Sticky IO-APIC problem

2001-07-04 Thread Colin Bayer
"Randy.Dunlap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I can't find an Intel BN810E board at intel.com or by searching >at google.com. Are you sure that's the correct name/ID for it? >Do you have any web page references for it? Sorry, it was an Intel CA810E board.

Re: tcp stack tuning and Checkpoint FW1 & Legato Networker

2001-07-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:02:36PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > I want to set the tcp_keepalive timer to 60 seconds and understand > > possible implications for Linux. > > echo 60 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time By default, this is only polled by the kernel every 75 seconds, so you

Re: Kernel HOWTO update?

2001-07-04 Thread Ben Ford
Shawn Starr wrote: >Section: >7.6 You forgot to run LILO, or system doesn't boot at all > >You might want to update the following line: > >"Using LILO with big drives (more than 1024 cylinders) can cause problems. >See the LILO mini-HOWTO or documentation for help on that." > >This isn't true

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Bill Pringlemeir
>> I'm kind of astounded now, WHY can't linux-2.4.x run on ANY >> machine in my house with more than 128 MB RAM?!? Can someone >> please point out to me Alan> Can I suggest you change your memory vendor and/or get an Alan> antistatic wrist strap ? I also have had problems with a machine

Kernel HOWTO update?

2001-07-04 Thread Shawn Starr
Section: 7.6 You forgot to run LILO, or system doesn't boot at all You might want to update the following line: "Using LILO with big drives (more than 1024 cylinders) can cause problems. See the LILO mini-HOWTO or documentation for help on that." This isn't true anymore unless your using an

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-04 Thread Rick Hohensee
>Now, you could probably argue that instead of inline asms we should have >more flexibility in doing a per-callee calling convention. That would be >good too, no question about it. > >Linus > Today's flamebait has been postponed. Happy July 4th. Peace. Rick Hohensee

Re: pcmcia lockup inserting or removing cards in 2.4.5-ac{13,22}

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:41:15AM +, Trevor Hemsley wrote: > OK, I've done quite a lot more work on this. It isn't 2.4.5, I'd > compiled USB support in when I went to 2.4.5 and it's that that causes > the problems. I backed out all changes made between 2.4.2 and 2.4.5 in > drivers/pcmcia

2.4.[56] kernel + xfree 4.1.0

2001-07-04 Thread Justin Guyett
After upgrading to xfree 4.1.0, after switching back to the console after starting X, suspending, and resuming, the text-mode terminals are corrupt (but look like they're in text mode). There were some messages in the XFree lists about X no longer restoring previous graphics state (since it has

Re[2]: about kmap_high function

2001-07-04 Thread michaelc
Hi, Tuesday, July 03, 2001, 5:38:09 PM, you wrote: SCT> kmap_high is intended to be called routinely for access to highmem SCT> pages. It is coded to be as fast as possible as a result. TLB SCT> flushes are expensive, especially on SMP, so kmap_high tries hard to SCT> avoid unnecessary

RE: tcp stack tuning and Checkpoint FW1 & Legato Networker

2001-07-04 Thread George Bonser
> > I want to set the tcp_keepalive timer to 60 seconds and understand > possible implications for Linux. echo 60 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread George Bonser
> > Nobody has answered a basic concern: > Why does Win2k work while Linux does not? The answer could be as simple as the fact that Linux might be trying to write to the exact memory location that is bad but Win2k has not. It might also be that he in fact DOES have problems with win2k but is

tcp stack tuning and Checkpoint FW1 & Legato Networker

2001-07-04 Thread kern
Hi, Can someone point me to a document that describes how to tune the tcp stack for Linux kernels 2.4.x and 2.2.x I want to set the tcp_keepalive timer to 60 seconds and understand possible implications for Linux. Simply I have a problem with Checkpoint FW1 and Legato Backup: When making a

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-04 Thread Rick Hohensee
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:37:28PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > That's with the GNU tools, without asm(), and without proper declaration > > of printf, as is my tendency. I don't actually return an int either, do I? > > LAAETTR. > > Under ISO C rules, this is illegal, since you must have

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Reza Roboubi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nobody has answered a basic concern: > Why does Win2k work while Linux does not? I did post a possible answer for this: different OSes excercise the memory subsystem very differently. This is why a box might run (say) Win95 apparently stably, but not

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-04 Thread Dan Maas
> Getting the user's "interactive" programs loaded back > in afterwards is a separate, much more difficult problem > IMHO, but no doubt still has a reasonable solution. Possibly stupid suggestion... Maybe the interactive/GUI programs should wake up once in a while and touch a couple of their

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Reza Roboubi
Nobody has answered a basic concern: Why does Win2k work while Linux does not? We already know that MiciSoft sometimes helps make stupid standards like P ISA cards and then writes drivers for them. Something that is hard to do for any _sane_ developers who did not help make the stupid

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-04 Thread Michael Meissner
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:37:28PM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > That's with the GNU tools, without asm(), and without proper declaration > of printf, as is my tendency. I don't actually return an int either, do I? > LAAETTR. Under ISO C rules, this is illegal, since you must have a proper

Random lockups with kernels 2.4.6-pre8+

2001-07-04 Thread Felix Braun
Hi there, I have been experiencing seemingly random lock ups with kernels 2.4.6-pre8 and 2.4.6-final which didn't occur when running on 2.4.6-pre5. I am not yet able to reproduce this behaviour (I will look into this as soon as I get some more time) but when it occurs the symptoms are consistent

Re: [PATCH] update for ALi Audio Driver

2001-07-04 Thread Matt_Wu
Sorry for my mistake. The patch I sent yesterday is wrong because it's not edited from the current source. And here is new patch for ALi M5451 audio driver. Best regards, Matt Wu http://www.ali.com.tw Information about update: Updated files: trident.c trident.h Location:

Re: unable to read from IDE tape

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Moore
Upgrade to mt-st version .5b or greater. Older mt versions had known bugs particularly with positioning. I suggest scsi emulation + scsi tape rather than ATAPI tape. rgds, tim. ... hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive ... scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1

PROBLEM: [2.4.6] kernel BUG at softirq.c:206!

2001-07-04 Thread Manfred H. Winter
Hi! I tried to install kernel 2.4.6 with same configuration as 2.4.5, but booting failed with: kernel BUG at softirq.c:206! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010082 eax: 001d ebx: c025bf80 ecx: 0001 edx: c0206628 esi: c025bf80 edi: 0001 ebp:

Re: pcmcia lockup inserting or removing cards in 2.4.5-ac{13,22}

2001-07-04 Thread Trevor Hemsley
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 00:30:10, "Trevor Hemsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somewhere between 2.4.2 and 2.4.5-ac13, PCMCIA card insertion and > removal appears to have broken on my Toshiba Libretto. On 2.4.2 all was > fine. On both 2.4.5-ac13 and ac22 it's broken. The whole machine freezes >

ACPI in 2.4.6 detects power button twice

2001-07-04 Thread Matthew Dharm
I just installed 2.4.6, and turned ACPI on (and APM off). On startup, APCI reports "Power button: found" twice. Also, in /proc/acpi/button there are two directories named "power". acpid is able to see the events properly, tho, and shutdown the computer. This is a Tyan 1598S motherboard

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Peter Bornemann
Yes, I have an Athlon 700 on a Asus/K7V motherboard with 256 MB PC 133 RAM. Never had any problem with this configuration. Before that, however, there was an Pentium 120 with 64 MB RAM. This one used to crash during kernel-compiles due to an overheated processor. Really funny. Later I got

framebuffer compile failure in 2.4.7-pre1

2001-07-04 Thread Justin Guyett
Presumably from the ac merge, console_conditional_schedule made it's way into pre1 fbcon.c, but neither the prototype from console.h nor the function from printk.c came with it. (perhaps this requires merging the console lock removal too?) justin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] small patch to ide-tape.c

2001-07-04 Thread John Guthrie
Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch adds a missing semicolon that is noticed only if you define > > IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE: > > > > John Guthrie > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It makes me curious, why do you need to define > IDETAPE_DEBUG_LOG_VERBOSE? > > I fixed some stuff

Re: unable to read from IDE tape

2001-07-04 Thread John Guthrie
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Note: the following is my reply to a private reply to my initial post regarding my problem reading from my tape drive. I thought that this info might be helpful on the mailing list as well. Willem Riede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Guthrie wrote: > > > >

Re: Mail list archives down

2001-07-04 Thread Håvard Kvålen
David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed 4 out of 5 LKML web archives listed in the FAQ are down as > of today. I guess the FAQ needs updating. Here is one that seems to work: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/ > -- Håvard Kvålen - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[PATCH] 2.4.6-ac1 fix error in drivers/parport/parport_pc.c

2001-07-04 Thread Steven Cole
I got this error building 2.4.6-ac1. drivers/parport/driver.o: In function `parport_pc_find_ports': drivers/parport/driver.o(.text.init+0x3f2): undefined reference to `init_pnp040x' drivers/parport/driver.o(.text.init+0x400): undefined reference to `pnpbios_find_device'

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread D. Stimits
Ronald Bultje wrote: > > Hi, > > you might remember an e-mail from me (two weeks ago) with my problems > where linux would not boot up or be highly instable on a machine with > 256 MB RAM, while it was 100% stable with 128 MB RAM. Basically, I still > have this problem, so I am running with 128

Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Well, I have an Acer AK73 Pro(A), with an Athlon 1.333 GHz (133 FSB). I have never had anuy lockup or data corruption problems. I do run this system as a dual-boot, usually under Win2K :( The system is as follows: Acer AK73 Pro(A) Athlon (C) 1.333 GHz IBM DTLA307060 60G IDE hard drive

loop device corruption in 2.4.6

2001-07-04 Thread Mark Swanson
Hello, I get repeatable errors with 2.4.6 patched with the international encryption patch patch-int-2.4.3.1.bz2 when building loop device filesystems on top of Reiserfs. All I have to do is: 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=testfs bs=1024 count=10 2. losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 ./testfs 3. mke2fs

RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
On 04 Jul 2001 17:06:51 -0300, Alessandro Motter Ren wrote: > > Which filesystem are you using on this machine? > []s. ext2 -- Ronald - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: O_DIRECT! or O_DIRECT?

2001-07-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen C. Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:27:13PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> >> Any chance of something like O_SEQUENTIAL (like madvise(MADV_SEQUENTIAL)) > >What for? The kernel already optimises readahead and

RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread George Bonser
> From: Alessandro Motter Ren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Which filesystem are you using on this machine? > []s. > ext2fs on the production farm but I also have a pair of machines (SMB P-III 800) using reiserfs on mail spools. That pair of machines is not particularly busy,

RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Alessandro Motter Ren
Which filesystem are you using on this machine? []s. -Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 5:06 PM To: Ronald Bultje; Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again) > I'm kind of

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On 4 Jul 2001, Ronald Bultje wrote: > Hi, > > you might remember an e-mail from me (two weeks ago) with my problems > where linux would not boot up or be highly instable on a machine with > 256 MB RAM, while it was 100% stable with 128 MB RAM. Basically, I still > have this problem, so I am

RE: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread George Bonser
> I'm kind of astounded now, WHY can't linux-2.4.x run on ANY machine in > my house with more than 128 MB RAM?!? Can someone please point out to me > that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with more than 128 > MB RAM and that he's NOT having severe stability problems? Running

ide-scsi problem in 2.4.6?!?

2001-07-04 Thread Nils Holland
Hi folks, there seems to be a problem in the 2.4.6. kernel, but unluckily, I have no idea what it is. Seriously: Let me tell you the whole story: I tend to burn a lot of CDs using my IDE CD-writer. In order to accomplish that, I'm using cdrecord 1.11a04, of course in conjunction with the

Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Dmitry Pogosyan
Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote: > On Wednesday, 4. July 2001 20:49, Joseph Mathewson wrote: > > Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption > > bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0 > > 2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread William Scott Lockwood III
Ditto. One with 320, one with 256 and one with 192. All dual booting Win98 or Win2k and Mandrake 8.0 with 2.4.3. Scott - Original Message - From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ronald Bultje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday,

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread mark
Asus K7V here, 800 MHz Athlon oc to 880 MHz, 256 Mb, occasional XFree86 lockups, otherwise stable with almost any of the v2.4.x series including -ac variants and the testing kernels. Right now 2.4.6-pre5, doing fine. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Hans-Christian Armingeon
On Wednesday, 4. July 2001 20:49, Joseph Mathewson wrote: > Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption > bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0 > 2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for an Athlon >

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
> I'm kind of astounded now, WHY can't linux-2.4.x run on ANY machine in > my house with more than 128 MB RAM?!? Can someone please point out to me Can I suggest you change your memory vendor and/or get an antistatic wrist strap ? > that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Charles Cazabon
Ronald Bultje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you might remember an e-mail from me (two weeks ago) with my problems > where linux would not boot up or be highly instable on a machine with > 256 MB RAM, while it was 100% stable with 128 MB RAM. Basically, I still > have this problem, so I am

Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: > I'm kind of astounded now, WHY can't linux-2.4.x run on ANY machine in > my house with more than 128 MB RAM?!? Can someone please point out to me > that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with more than 128 > MB RAM and that he's NOT having severe stability

Re: [OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Joseph Mathewson wrote: > Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption > bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0 > 2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for an Athlon > motherboard that works

>128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Ronald Bultje
Hi, you might remember an e-mail from me (two weeks ago) with my problems where linux would not boot up or be highly instable on a machine with 256 MB RAM, while it was 100% stable with 128 MB RAM. Basically, I still have this problem, so I am running with 128 MB RAM again. I've been running

[patch] Re: alpha - generic_init_pit - why using RTC for calibration?

2001-07-04 Thread Richard Henderson
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:19:31PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > Good idea. The patch below works reliably on my sx164. Reasonable. Here I've cleaned up time_init a tad as well. r~ --- arch/alpha/kernel/time.c.orig Fri Jun 29 11:24:03 2001 +++ arch/alpha/kernel/time.cFri Jun 29

[OT] Suitable Athlon Motherboard for Linux

2001-07-04 Thread Joseph Mathewson
Having heard the various horror stories about the VIA PCI data corruption bugs, and watching one Via based machine destroy itself with a Mandrake 8.0 2.4.3, I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion for an Athlon motherboard that works reliably under Linux (I don't think all the issues

Re: O_DIRECT! or O_DIRECT?

2001-07-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:27:13PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Stephen C. Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For these reasons, buffered IO is often faster than O_DIRECT for pure > >sequential access. The downside it its greater CPU cost and

Re: O_DIRECT! or O_DIRECT?

2001-07-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen C. Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For these reasons, buffered IO is often faster than O_DIRECT for pure >sequential access. The downside it its greater CPU cost and the fact >that it pollutes the cache (which, in turn, causes even _more_ CPU >overhead

Re: O_DIRECT! or O_DIRECT?

2001-07-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:34:35AM +0400, Samium Gromoff wrote: > > This is interesting, because one real advantage > of O_DIRECT are these greased weasel fast 15-20 Mb/s > file copies, which ones makes windoze users to look > on us as on lesser beings. Not true.

Re: Mail list archives down

2001-07-04 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 07:17:08PM +0200, David Balazic wrote: > I noticed 4 out of 5 LKML web archives listed in the FAQ > are down as of today. Here is another one that updates in real time but doesn't support thread mode: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/35/0/ . Erik -- J.A.K.

Don't feed the trooll [offtopic] Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don'thave asm("")

2001-07-04 Thread Ben LaHaise
Hey folks, Just a quick reminder: don't feed the troll. He's very hungry. -ben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cort Dougan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There isn't such a crippling difference between straight-line and code with >unconditional branches in it with modern processors. In fact, there's very >little measurable difference. Oh, the small details get to you

Mail list archives down

2001-07-04 Thread David Balazic
I noticed 4 out of 5 LKML web archives listed in the FAQ are down as of today. They are listed in the LKML FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ : 1. http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html this is the only on that works for me. It is missing most of todays messages. I

Re: Linus vs. AC kernels

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
The -ac and Linus tree merging is not remotely in order of -ac releases, That does make it more complex to classify - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I argued this at the very beginning, but there was a very strong > > view that you needed to run most of the code before you had a user > > space to run it in. I've not followed things closely enough to > > That bit is clearly untrue. It's untrue only

Re: Linus vs. AC kernels

2001-07-04 Thread John Weber
Adam wrote: > yeah, read change logs.. Some samples. -pre9: - merge with Alan (including MIPS update) -pre6: - Alan Cox: merging, merging, merging - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Linus vs. AC kernels

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:58:02PM -0400, John Weber wrote: > Is there any way to find out up to what ac# level has been merged with > the current kernel releases (including the pre kernels)? You can get a diff between two arbitrary patches against the same thing using interdiff from

Re: 2.4.6: Machine Check Exception: 0x 106BE0 (type 0x 9).

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
> I stress that 2.4.4 still compiles and runs without a problem. Does this > make any sense for a hardware problem? Was there any new hardware (cpu) > check introduced in 2.4.5? I'd be very grateful for any tips, Yes. 2.4.5 reports MCE rather than praying the detected error or out of tolerance

Linus vs. AC kernels

2001-07-04 Thread John Weber
Is there any way to find out up to what ac# level has been merged with the current kernel releases (including the pre kernels)? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

aty128fb code ac vs. linus

2001-07-04 Thread Philipp Schmid
hi, i have a ati rage128 m3 and with the current (2.4.6) kernel X doesn't work together with the aty128fb framebuffer. (very strange effect, looks if only a very few amount of the memory is used and this is mapped!!) with the aty128fb code from 2.4.5-ac18 X works without any problems. at the

2.4.6: Machine Check Exception: 0x 106BE0 (type 0x 9).

2001-07-04 Thread David Thor Bragason
Hello, I wrote to this list the other day about how I didn't get 2.4.5 to boot on my Compaq LTE 5200 laptop. This is a Pentium 120MHz, 72MB RAM with an OPTi Viper chipset. The strange thing is, all kernels up to 2.4.4 (inclusive) compile and run flawlessly on this machine. Only when I tried to

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-04 Thread mike_phillips
> Remember that the first message was about a laptop. At 4:00AM there's > no activity but the updatedb one (and the other cron jobs). Simply, > there's no 'accessed-often' data. Moreover, I'd bet that 90% of the > metadata touched by updatedb won't be accessed at all in the future. > Laptop

Re: Linux 2.2.20pre7

2001-07-04 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Alan. > Linux 2.2 is now firmly into maintainance state. Patches for > neat new ideas belong in 2.4. Generally new drivers belong in > 2.4 (possibly in 2.2 as well after 2.4 shows them stable). > Expect me to be very picky on changes to the core code now. Can I submit the attached patch

Linux 2.2.20pre7

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
Linux 2.2 is now firmly into maintainance state. Patches for neat new ideas belong in 2.4. Generally new drivers belong in 2.4 (possibly in 2.2 as well after 2.4 shows them stable). Expect me to be very picky on changes to the core code now. 2.2.20pre7 o Merge rose buffr management fixes

Re: Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

2001-07-04 Thread Florian Schmitt
> Could you specify what you mean by "very high network traffic" in terms > of interrupt rate and Mb/s ? > Ftp on full CD content or gross ping -f doesn't kill it under 2.4 here. > autonegociation sucks sometimes. That's about what I did, except that I saved the data to a nfs mounted disk. >

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 11:41, Marco Colombo wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 July 2001 12:33, Marco Colombo wrote: > > > Oh, yes, since that PAGE_AGE_BG_INTERACTIVE_MINIMUM is applied only > > > when background aging, maybe it's not enough to keep processes

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 10:32, Marco Colombo wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Monday 02 July 2001 20:42, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Marco Colombo wrote: > > > > I'm not sure that, in general, recent pages with only one access are > > > > still

Re: Ideas for TUX2

2001-07-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 09:53, Ph. Marek wrote: > >> Well, my point was, that with several thousand inodes spread over the > >> disk it won't always be possible to update the inode AND the fbb in one > >> go. So I proposed the 2nd inode with generation counter! > > > >The cool thing is, it *is*

Re: What are rules for acpi_ex_enter_interpreter?

2001-07-04 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:38:07AM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > I did NOT verified other callers of acpi_walk_namespace... And there > is still some problem left, as although now S5 is listed as available, > poweroff still does nothing instead of poweroff. Replying to myself, after

Re: New FarSync T-Series driver

2001-07-04 Thread François romieu
The Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:28:03PM +0100, Robert J.Dunlop wrote : [...] > Sorry for the big post, but I posted URLs for an earlier version of this > a couple of months back and got very little feedback. I know sync card > drivers ain't sexy. Just my HO: * error_1, error_2... error_n labels are

Re: Intel SRCU3-1 RAID (I2O) and 2.4.5-ac18

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Function: Media Unlock > Error Code: Access Violation > User Info: > Disk Serial No is not set, just no data in the table field > Timestamps are somewhat strange - three erroror logs one after > another then about 3-4 minutes delay and again three messages What that means in the intel

Re: Intel SRCU3-1 RAID (I2O) and 2.4.5-ac18

2001-07-04 Thread pt
> modprobe i2o_config > may be needed Yes of course, why didn't I think about it... Anyway, the cgi tool doesn't seem to identify any problems with the controller before the freeze. Then it freezes together with the copying process. And after reboot I see errors in the controller's log - they

[PATCH] Re: dev_get_by_name without dev_put

2001-07-04 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:49:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Every time dev_get_by_name is called, and it has returned a valid struct >net_device*, dev_put should be called afterwards, because otherwise the machine hangs >when the device is unregistered (since dev->refcnt > 1).

dev_get_by_name without dev_put

2001-07-04 Thread fabrizio . gennari
Every time dev_get_by_name is called, and it has returned a valid struct net_device*, dev_put should be called afterwards, because otherwise the machine hangs when the device is unregistered (since dev->refcnt > 1). However, it seems that some drivers do not call dev_put after dev_get_by_name:

problems with netfilter 2.4.6 with mark unclean.

2001-07-04 Thread V man
HI, upgrading to new linux kernel 2.4.6, with FULL netfilter enabled and compiled statically inside of the kernel, a rule like iptables -A INPUT -m unclean -j DROP will put netfilter in condition to DROP every tcp packet it receives. That is not true with UDP or icmp, (NFS and all icmp work)

Re: Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

2001-07-04 Thread Francois Romieu
Juergen Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrit : [...] Jul 2 13:06:59 localhost kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0x008d0004. Receive Status Valid Receive Copy In Progress Transmit Idle Receive Queue Empty -> no more receive buffer available It looks like one waits too long before

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac24

2001-07-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.5-ac24 > o Merge 2.4.6-pre9 > - Ignored ATI changes versus old atyfb codebase drivers/video/aty/ in your tree is still for the ATI Mach64 family only. So you should keep on merging aty128fb (for ATI Rage 128). The integration of the support for

Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:38:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Can hotplug handle this from a PCI id table ? There is a PCI id table in parport_serial, yes (if that's what you're asking). Tim. */ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL_MODULE > - if (!ret) > - request_module ("parport_serial"); > -#endif > - > return ret; > } > > --- linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog.orig Wed Jul 4 13:30:32 2001 > +++ linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog Wed Jul 4 13:32:01 2001 > @@

Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically

2001-07-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:32:42AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Could you remove the request_module() from parport_pc ? Yes. Here is a patch against 2.4.5-ac24. Tim. */ 2001-07-04 Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * drivers/parport/parport_pc.c: Don't load parport_serial.

[PATCH] fix typo in 2.4.6 for PPC

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Mackerras
The patch below fixes a typo in the PowerPC code in 2.4.6. Without this change, people attempting to compile up a kernel for a powermac will get a compile error. Paul. diff -urN linux/arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_pci.c linuxppc_2_4/arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_pci.c --- linux/arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_pci.cTue

Re: RPC: rpciod waiting on sync task!

2001-07-04 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Dima Brodsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I modified the linux NFS client, kernel 2.4.5 and > 2.4.6-pre7, to send an extra SETATTR, with special values, > within nfs_open and nfs_release so that I would be able to > track file open and close. For the server

Re: about kmap_high function

2001-07-04 Thread Paul Mackerras
Stephen C. Tweedie writes: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:47:20PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > On PPC it is a bit different. Flushing a single TLB entry is > > relatively cheap - the hardware broadcasts the TLB invalidation on the > > bus (in most implementations) so there are no cross-calls

2.4.6-final changelog entry

2001-07-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
i summarized it for irc, so if it saves effort... jg's 2.4.6-final changelog: - minor config.in fixes - mtd nand/spia update - TI cardbus fix - u810 audio put_user fix - ialloc.c fix, mode, plus DQUOT_INIT - ELOOP in namei.c - if (!mm) return in proc/base.c - replace mm/mmap.c change: free

Re: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-04 Thread Alan Cox
> I argued this at the very beginning, but there was a very strong > view that you needed to run most of the code before you had a user > space to run it in. I've not followed things closely enough to That bit is clearly untrue. > My feeling has been that ACPI has violated the minimum

RE: [Acpi] Re: ACPI fundamental locking problems

2001-07-04 Thread Dave J Woolley
> From: Alan Cox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > The goal isnt a technical nit, its to avoid loading 300Kbytes of crud > (which > should mostly be in user space anyway) on the 99.9% of machines where we > dont > need it. [DJW:] I argued this at the very beginning, but there was a very strong

8139too driver update

2001-07-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Those who experienced problems with the 8139too driver are encouraged to try the driver found in 2.4.6 release kernel. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "I respect faith, but doubt is Building 1024| what gives you an education." MandrakeSoft | -- Wilson Mizner -

Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")

2001-07-04 Thread Rick Hohensee
>> >Cort Dugan >> There isn't such a crippling difference between straight-line and code >>with> >> unconditional branches in it with modern processors. In fact, there's> >>very >> little measurable difference. >> >> If you're looking for something to blame hurd performance on I'd >>suggest >>

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-04 Thread Marco Colombo
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2001 12:33, Marco Colombo wrote: > > Oh, yes, since that PAGE_AGE_BG_INTERACTIVE_MINIMUM is applied only > > when background aging, maybe it's not enough to keep processes like > > updatedb from causing interactive pages to be

[PATCH] alpha - generic_init_pit - CTC calibration

2001-07-04 Thread Oleg I. Vdovikin
Here is the patch against the buggy Cypress RTC which is found on some Alpha boards. It's tested with 2.2.16 & 2.2.19 kernels and as seems should work with 2.4.x kernels. This patch differs from initial Ivan's version by the "cc" variable type & different calibrate divisor usage for better

Re: Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

2001-07-04 Thread Juergen Wolf
John Jasen wrote: > > a) bad cable? > b) not negotiating speed and duplex with the switch correctly? > c) bad card? > Hi, The same errors show up with the network cable plugged or unplugged on all computers with the SMC card around here. But all these computers are equipped with nearly the

Re: Problem with SMC Etherpower II + kernel newer 2.4.2

2001-07-04 Thread Francois Romieu
Florian Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ecrit : [...] > Same problem here, it won't run at all on newer kernels. But it isn't even > 100% stable in 2.2.x here - on very high network traffic the card stops > working. In this case, it helps to pull the network plug for a short time, Could you

Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

2001-07-04 Thread Marco Colombo
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2001 20:42, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Marco Colombo wrote: > > > I'm not sure that, in general, recent pages with only one access are > > > still better eviction candidates compared to 8 hours old pages. Here > > >

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