Re: i915 driver gpu hung kernel 3.11

2013-11-20 Thread Stephen Clark
On 11/20/2013 12:26 PM, Bruno Prémont wrote: Hi Stephen, On Tue, 19 November 2013 Stephen Clark wrote: Thanks for the response. I have subscribed to the intel-gfx list. I didn't post the error_state file since it huge. It's best to submit a but report on bugs.freedesktop.org and attach

Re: i915 driver gpu hung kernel 3.11

2013-11-20 Thread Stephen Clark
Hi Bruno, I have tested the latest kernel and X, mesa etc, but am still using wine-1.3.24. I am working on upgrading that. If I still have the error I will file a bug report at bugs.freedesktop.org. I already have a login because of the same problem happening with Myst 5, but it was never

Re: i915 driver gpu hung kernel 3.11

2013-11-19 Thread Stephen Clark
triggers the hang, please add! Bruno On Sun, 17 November 2013 Stephen Clark wrote: Hi List, I am getting this in kernel 3.11 x86_64 Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4 kernel: [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* stuck on render ring Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4 kernel: [drm] capturing error event; look for more

Re: i915 driver gpu hung kernel 3.11

2013-11-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Hi Bruno, Thanks for the response. I have subscribed to the intel-gfx list. I didn't post the error_state file since it huge. I was trying to play Myst Online using wine-1.3.24. I get started and start moving my avatar fairly quickly I get the error. I have built the latest X, mesa etc

i915 driver gpu hung kernel 3.11

2013-11-17 Thread Stephen Clark
Hi List, I am getting this in kernel 3.11 x86_64 Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4 kernel: [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* stuck on render ring Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4 kernel: [drm] capturing error event; look for more information in /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_error_state Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4

i915 driver gpu hung kernel 3.11

2013-11-17 Thread Stephen Clark
Hi List, I am getting this in kernel 3.11 x86_64 Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4 kernel: [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* stuck on render ring Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4 kernel: [drm] capturing error event; look for more information in /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_error_state Nov 17 18:56:19 joker4

test

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Clark
test - is the ml alive. -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

test

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen Clark
test - is the ml alive. -- They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Ben Franklin) The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. (Thomas Jefferson) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: cpuinfo_cur_freq always max

2007-12-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Johannes Weiner wrote: Hi, Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: userspace Please supply the full dmesg output on the non-working kernel the corresponding .config (or /proc/config.gz). Added Dave to CC. Hannes Duh - I rebooted into the new kernel and no long

Re: cpuinfo_cur_freq always max

2007-12-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Johannes Weiner wrote: Hi, Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Which governor are you using? ondemand? Not sure - but the only thing that is changed is the kernel - if I go back to 2.6.23.1 it works correctly. Have a look at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/c

Re: cpuinfo_cur_freq always max

2007-12-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Johannes Weiner wrote: Hi, Stephen Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which governor are you using? ondemand? Not sure - but the only thing that is changed is the kernel - if I go back to 2.6.23.1 it works correctly. Have a look at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq

Re: cpuinfo_cur_freq always max

2007-12-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Johannes Weiner wrote: Hi, Stephen Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: userspace Please supply the full dmesg output on the non-working kernel the corresponding .config (or /proc/config.gz). Added Dave to CC. Hannes Duh - I rebooted into the new kernel and no longer see

cpuinfo_cur_freq always max

2007-12-17 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello, Running linux 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq correctly reflects the cpu speed, when idle it is 996000 and when compiling it is 1826000. Its also the same as what is in /proc/cpuinfo. But with 2.6.23.8-34.fc7

cpuinfo_cur_freq always max

2007-12-17 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello, Running linux 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq correctly reflects the cpu speed, when idle it is 996000 and when compiling it is 1826000. Its also the same as what is in /proc/cpuinfo. But with 2.6.23.8-34.fc7

Re: Power Saving

2007-11-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Dave Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:41:31PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: > Hello List, > > I am trying to get throttling to work on the following processor I think by throttling, you actually mean changing frequency/voltage ? (throttling is something else, where the CPU skip

Power Saving

2007-11-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello List, I am trying to get throttling to work on the following processor with linux 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 with no luck. AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info processor id:0 acpi id: 0 bus mastering control: no power management:yes

Power Saving

2007-11-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello List, I am trying to get throttling to work on the following processor with linux 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 with no luck. AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info processor id:0 acpi id: 0 bus mastering control: no power management:yes

Re: Power Saving

2007-11-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Dave Jones wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:41:31PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I am trying to get throttling to work on the following processor I think by throttling, you actually mean changing frequency/voltage ? (throttling is something else, where the CPU skips every n

Re: Laptop's HDD

2007-11-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote: The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it can checked it with "smartctl -A /dev/sda") . There are reports of

Re: Laptop's HDD

2007-11-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Alberto Gonzalez wrote: The problem comes from a very high rate of load/unload cycles of the heads that reaches the 300.000-600.000 limit in 2-3 years (with smartmontools it can checked it with smartctl -A /dev/sda) . There are reports of HDD

asus-laptop module

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Hi List, When the asus-laptop module is loaded it automatically turns on my wireless led light irregardless of the whether or not the my wireless is up or not. I had previously been using the out of kernel asus-laptop module, which no longer compiles because of missing some structure

asus-laptop module

2007-11-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Hi List, When the asus-laptop module is loaded it automatically turns on my wireless led light irregardless of the whether or not the my wireless is up or not. I had previously been using the out of kernel asus-laptop module, which no longer compiles because of missing some structure

ali_pata sets my udma to 33 when it should be 66

2007-07-17 Thread Stephen Clark
I just upgraded my HP N5430 laptop to fedora 7 with a 2.6.21 kernel. It used to be udma/66 under the old ide driver. ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008 irq 15 scsi0 : pata_ali

ali_pata sets my udma to 33 when it should be 66

2007-07-17 Thread Stephen Clark
I just upgraded my HP N5430 laptop to fedora 7 with a 2.6.21 kernel. It used to be udma/66 under the old ide driver. ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00011000 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00011008 irq 15 scsi0 : pata_ali

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-21 Thread Stephen Clark
David Schwartz wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:55:10 -0700 "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A key is a number. A signature is a number. They are neither statements nor instructions. The argument that GPLv2 prohibits Tivoization is really and truly absurd. It has

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-21 Thread Stephen Clark
David Schwartz wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:55:10 -0700 David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A key is a number. A signature is a number. They are neither statements nor instructions. The argument that GPLv2 prohibits Tivoization is really and truly absurd. It has

Re: Combined mode quirk removal kills performance

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Clark
Frank Sorenson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The patch to "remove combined mode quirk" (git bisect says 8cdfb29c0cd8018f92214c11c631d8926f4cb032) makes my laptop run slower than a dead sloth. "hdparm -T" indicates that buffered disk reads on my hard drive drop from

Re: Combined mode quirk removal kills performance

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Clark
Frank Sorenson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The patch to remove combined mode quirk (git bisect says 8cdfb29c0cd8018f92214c11c631d8926f4cb032) makes my laptop run slower than a dead sloth. hdparm -T indicates that buffered disk reads on my hard drive drop from 48-50

Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Clark
Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 5:08 pm, Dave Jones wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:32:43PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Francesco Pretto wrote: > > 2007/5/4, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Yeap, the third iteration of the patch just got submitted. > >> > >>

Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Clark
Rob Landley wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 5:08 pm, Dave Jones wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:32:43PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: Francesco Pretto wrote: 2007/5/4, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeap, the third iteration of the patch just got submitted.

Re: Announcing free software drivers for the new Intel® 965GM Express Chipset

2007-05-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Great news. Here's hoping that Intel produces a standalone video card eventually, to further take away market share from closed source competitors. Jeff, not biased at all... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Announcing free software drivers for the new Intel® 965GM Express Chipset

2007-05-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Great news. Here's hoping that Intel produces a standalone video card eventually, to further take away market share from closed source competitors. Jeff, not biased at all... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces

2007-05-08 Thread Stephen Clark
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:19:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: +Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do. + +if (condition) + action(); + +This does not apply if one branch of a conditional statement is a single +statement. Use braces in

Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

2007-05-08 Thread Stephen Clark
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: Hmmm ... what if David was German and had a couple of umlauts in his name :-) One would expect to at least _spell_ his own name properly in his code. Sources need to take care of that too (but we better stick to only UTF-8

Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

2007-05-08 Thread Stephen Clark
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 5/7/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:49:50 + Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon 2007-05-07 16:10:53, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:04 +, Pavel Machek wrote: Can we stick to

Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

2007-05-08 Thread Stephen Clark
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On 5/7/07, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 19:49:50 + Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 2007-05-07 16:10:53, David Woodhouse wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:04 +, Pavel Machek wrote: Can we stick to

Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

2007-05-08 Thread Stephen Clark
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: Hmmm ... what if David was German and had a couple of umlauts in his name :-) One would expect to at least _spell_ his own name properly in his code. Sources need to take care of that too (but we better stick to only UTF-8

Re: CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces

2007-05-08 Thread Stephen Clark
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:19:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: +Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do. + +if (condition) + action(); + +This does not apply if one branch of a conditional statement is a single +statement. Use braces in

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: I'm running fc6 but with kernel 2.6.21 from kernel.org - compiled with the .config file from fc6. My system is a asus laptop with an ich7 chipset which has both sata and pata controllers. My laptop only brings out the pata controller interface

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Monday, April 30, 2007 1:22 pm Stephen Clark wrote: Please don't do this! Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I am running FC6 with kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance goes down to a whopping

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I am running FC6 with kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance goes down to a whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I am running FC6 with kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance goes down to a whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Monday, April 30, 2007 1:22 pm Stephen Clark wrote: Please don't do this! Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I am running FC6 with kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance goes down to a whopping

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: I'm running fc6 but with kernel 2.6.21 from kernel.org - compiled with the .config file from fc6. My system is a asus laptop with an ich7 chipset which has both sata and pata controllers. My laptop only brings out the pata controller interface

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-04-30 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff Garzik (8): libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirk You can't just remove the "combined_mode=" kernel parameter or every Linux user who uses that will get an unbootable kernel with no good way of diagnosing the

Re: [git patches] libata updates

2007-04-30 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Jeff Garzik (8): libata/IDE: remove combined mode quirk You can't just remove the combined_mode= kernel parameter or every Linux user who uses that will get an unbootable kernel with no good way of diagnosing the

Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

2007-04-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andreas Dilger wrote: It's true that this is a "feature" of ext3 with data=ordered (the default), but I suspect the same thing is now true in reiserfs too. Oh, well.. Journalling sucks. I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:31:43PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:58:05PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: "no regressions" is definitely not feasible. 14 known regressions, some of them not yet debugged at all, are different from your "some small

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: It is laptop that does not have a serial port and I could not couldn't get the kernel to boot using a usb serial port so I couldn't get a screen capture of the intermittant panic. If you can write it down

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: It is laptop that does not have a serial port and I could not couldn't get the kernel to boot using a usb serial port so I couldn't get a screen capture of the intermittant panic. If you can write it down

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:31:43PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:58:05PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: no regressions is definitely not feasible. 14 known regressions, some of them not yet debugged at all, are different from your some small

Re: [ext3][kernels = 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation)

2007-04-27 Thread Stephen Clark
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Andreas Dilger wrote: It's true that this is a feature of ext3 with data=ordered (the default), but I suspect the same thing is now true in reiserfs too. Oh, well.. Journalling sucks. I was actually _really_ hoping that somebody would come

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
g/lkml/2007/3/31/160 Submitter : Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status : unknown The poster says rtl8139, but doesn't provide more info. His lspci says "RTL8169SC", which sounds more like r8169 to me. Yes, thanks. The r8169 driver has bee

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: It is laptop that does not have a serial port and I could not couldn't get the kernel to boot using a usb serial port so I couldn't get a screen capture of the intermittant panic. If you can write it down with a pen and paper, or manually

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: Pointer for the rtl8139 regression please ? I'm guessing it's this one: Subject: boot failure: rtl8139: exception in interrupt routine References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/160 Submitter : Stephen Clark

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: IMO, the closer you look, the more warts you find. Before you starting doing your work with kernel regressions, no one was really tracking it. I bet you have helped cut down on the regressions, but I have no good way to quantify my gut feeling. Additional comments on

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Look at the facts: 8 out of 14 regressions in my current list were reported in March or earlier. And for many regressions fixed it took several weeks until debugging by a kernel developer was started. We do not lack testers

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at the facts: 8 out of 14 regressions in my current list were reported in March or earlier. And for many regressions fixed it took several weeks until debugging by a kernel developer was started. We do not lack testers

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: IMO, the closer you look, the more warts you find. Before you starting doing your work with kernel regressions, no one was really tracking it. I bet you have helped cut down on the regressions, but I have no good way to quantify my gut feeling. Additional comments on

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: Pointer for the rtl8139 regression please ? I'm guessing it's this one: Subject: boot failure: rtl8139: exception in interrupt routine References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/160 Submitter : Stephen Clark

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
Jeff Garzik wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: It is laptop that does not have a serial port and I could not couldn't get the kernel to boot using a usb serial port so I couldn't get a screen capture of the intermittant panic. If you can write it down with a pen and paper, or manually

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread Stephen Clark
/2007/3/31/160 Submitter : Stephen Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status : unknown The poster says rtl8139, but doesn't provide more info. His lspci says RTL8169SC, which sounds more like r8169 to me. Yes, thanks. The r8169 driver has been added a few bugfixes between

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-20 Thread Stephen Clark
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those S.M.A.R.T. attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux "suspend-to-disk"). Scratch that -- operator failure. ;)

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-20 Thread Stephen Clark
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those S.M.A.R.T. attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux suspend-to-disk). Scratch that -- operator failure. ;) The patch

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Apr 18 2007 09:39, Stephen Clark wrote: So this is the pop I hear on my new laptop that is using libata=combined_mode when I shut my system down. I didn't get the pop with the same disk drive in an older laptop that was only ide. It sounds like a relay closing

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Len Brown wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:23, Jeff Garzik wrote: Len Brown wrote: < Linux version 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 < ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 < (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 19 11:38:26 EDT 2007 --- Linux version 2.6.20-1.3023.fc7 ([EMAIL

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Alan Cox wrote: scsi0 : pata_ali PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0 ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100 < drive can do 100 ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33<=== configured as 33 How is this system

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Alan Cox wrote: scsi0 : pata_ali PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0 ata1.00: ATA-5: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, 00H1A0A3, max UDMA/100 drive can do 100 ata1.00: 39070080 sectors, multi 16: LBA ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33=== configured as 33 How is this system

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Len Brown wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:23, Jeff Garzik wrote: Len Brown wrote: Linux version 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 19 11:38:26 EDT 2007 --- Linux version 2.6.20-1.3023.fc7 ([EMAIL

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Clark
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Apr 18 2007 09:39, Stephen Clark wrote: So this is the pop I hear on my new laptop that is using libata=combined_mode when I shut my system down. I didn't get the pop with the same disk drive in an older laptop that was only ide. It sounds like a relay closing

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. FC7 test4 will be out any day now. Please test that -- test2 is ancient now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those S.M.A.R.T. attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux "suspend-to-disk"). Scratch that -- operator failure. ;) The patch makes no difference over hibernates in the SMART logs. It's

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Mark Lord wrote: Alan Cox wrote: + if (dev->needs_flush && ata_try_flush_cache(dev)) { return ata_scsi_flush_xlat; + dev->needs_flush = 0; Works better if you swap the dev-> and return lines Heh, yeah, I noticed

Re: Loud "pop" coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Alan Cox wrote: Thought about that and querying power state before doing shutdown sequence but things get somewhat ugly because shutdown sequence is driven from sd->shutdown(). We'll have to snoop both sync and shutdown commands and check whether the system is shutting down. Also, I felt

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Alan Cox wrote: Thought about that and querying power state before doing shutdown sequence but things get somewhat ugly because shutdown sequence is driven from sd-shutdown(). We'll have to snoop both sync and shutdown commands and check whether the system is shutting down. Also, I felt

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Mark Lord wrote: Alan Cox wrote: + if (dev-needs_flush ata_try_flush_cache(dev)) { return ata_scsi_flush_xlat; + dev-needs_flush = 0; Works better if you swap the dev- and return lines Heh, yeah, I noticed that!

Re: Loud pop coming from hard drive on reboot

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Mark Lord wrote: Mark Lord wrote: With the patch applied, I don't see *any* new activity in those S.M.A.R.T. attributes over multiple hibernates (Linux suspend-to-disk). Scratch that -- operator failure. ;) The patch makes no difference over hibernates in the SMART logs. It's still

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Clark
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. FC7 test4 will be out any day now. Please test that -- test2 is ancient now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic tha

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-04-01 Thread Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-03-31 Thread Stephen Clark
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in interrupt r

2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-03-31 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in interrupt routine for my rtl8139. This device works fine in 2.6.20.2 $ lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile

2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-03-31 Thread Stephen Clark
Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in interrupt routine for my rtl8139. This device works fine in 2.6.20.2 $ lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile

Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

2007-03-31 Thread Stephen Clark
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it failed on both. Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in interrupt routine for my

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Stephen Clark
Mark Hahn wrote: So in an attempt to summarise the situation, what are the advantages of RSDL over mainline. Fairness why do you think fairness is good, especially always good? Starvation free even starvation is sometimes a good thing - there's a place for processes that

Re: RSDL v0.31

2007-03-17 Thread Stephen Clark
Mark Hahn wrote: So in an attempt to summarise the situation, what are the advantages of RSDL over mainline. Fairness why do you think fairness is good, especially always good? Starvation free even starvation is sometimes a good thing - there's a place for processes that

Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Con Kolivas wrote: Here is an update for RSDL to version 0.28 Full patch: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched-rsdl-0.28.patch Series: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20/ The patch to get you from 0.26 to 0.28:

Re: RSDL v0.28 for 2.6.20

2007-03-10 Thread Stephen Clark
Con Kolivas wrote: Here is an update for RSDL to version 0.28 Full patch: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20-sched-rsdl-0.28.patch Series: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.20/ The patch to get you from 0.26 to 0.28:

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Clark
Bill Davidsen wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the driver's ->mode_filter hook. this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics I actua

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Clark
Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the driver's ->mode_filter hook. this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics I actually suggested that order because the only way the printk can be done

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Clark
Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the driver's -mode_filter hook. this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics I actually suggested that order because the only way the printk can be done

Re: [PATCH] libata: warn if speed limited due to 40-wire cable (v2)

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Clark
Bill Davidsen wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: it seems broken to manipulate xfer_mask after returning from the driver's -mode_filter hook. this patch is more than just a speed-limited warning printk, afaics I actually

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-25 Thread Stephen Clark
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Actually, it's quite clear under US law what a derivative work is and what rights you need to distribute it, and equally clear that compiling code does not make a "translation" in a copyright sense. Read Micro Star v. Formgen -- it's good law and it's funny and

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-25 Thread Stephen Clark
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Actually, it's quite clear under US law what a derivative work is and what rights you need to distribute it, and equally clear that compiling code does not make a translation in a copyright sense. Read Micro Star v. Formgen -- it's good law and it's funny and

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-03 Thread Stephen Clark
Patrick Ale wrote: On 2/4/07, Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: But why are we taking away the users capability to control his/her own hardware. Sounds like windows. I wouldn't go as far as making that comparsion, most of all cause it's

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-03 Thread Stephen Clark
Robert Hancock wrote: Hi guys, Me again, sorry. Is it possible to make hdparm work with libata? I have some drives that for some reason fall back to lower UDMA settings (like UDMA/44) while the drive is UDMA/100. I blame the way I set-up my raid arrays for this and the bus not being able to

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-03 Thread Stephen Clark
Robert Hancock wrote: Hi guys, Me again, sorry. Is it possible to make hdparm work with libata? I have some drives that for some reason fall back to lower UDMA settings (like UDMA/44) while the drive is UDMA/100. I blame the way I set-up my raid arrays for this and the bus not being able to

Re: hdparm for lib_pata

2007-02-03 Thread Stephen Clark
Patrick Ale wrote: On 2/4/07, Stephen Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: But why are we taking away the users capability to control his/her own hardware. Sounds like windows. I wouldn't go as far as making that comparsion, most of all cause it's totaly

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Stephen Clark
Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:56:20PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote: Sunil Naidu wrote: On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help you do something else during that time, o

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Stephen Clark
Sunil Naidu wrote: On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help you do something else during that time, or also give more responsiveness to Ctrl-C. It is possible that you have fast and slow RAM, or that your video

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