kernel.org verification key updated

2000-10-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know that we have changed the cryptographic key for the Linux Kernel Archives. The reason is that the original key was generated with an expiration date, and unfortunately it appears that too much software

Re: 53C1010-33 Linux 2.2.17 driver

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Tomt
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:05:10PM +0200, Andre Tomt wrote: The sym53c8xx driver handles this card nicely in u160scsi mode using kernel 2.4testX, but I don't want that kernel on this machine. 2.2.17 does not detect the card, and looking at the

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Helge Hafting
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:42:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: ignoring the kill would just preserve those bugs artificially. If the oom killer kills a thing like init by mistake or init has a memleak you'll notice both problems regardless of having a magic for init

Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:14:11AM -0700, James Simmons wrote: This patch fixes a minor config error for drivers/usb/Config.in. When you select USB Human Interface Device (HID) support I assume you should be able to select a USB mouse and/or USB keyboard. With the current Config.in you

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Also I need to adjust the rules for "ignore byte93" because the the various methods that are being supported. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Try the "ignore byte93" option in the IDE menu. The IBM doesn't try to do UDMA66 because the ZIP drive kills its 80-wire cable detection

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:43:33AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Also I need to adjust the rules for "ignore byte93" because the the various methods that are being supported. Yes, it would be nice if we had some better guesses on whether to think the 80-wire cable is present. It would also be

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:43:33AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Also I need to adjust the rules for "ignore byte93" because the the various methods that are being supported. Yes, it would be nice if we had some better guesses on whether to

BTTV/TDA card, msp34xx keeps trying to come up

2000-10-10 Thread David Ford
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951) bttv: driver version 0.7.44 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:10:06AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: These are two different issues. One is host side detection and the other is drive side detection/acknowledgement. ide0=ata66 overrides the host-rules ivb-byte93 overrides the mixed drive side rules. The only think that is

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Robert Brooks
Alan Cox wrote: - Fix the megaraid (revert if need be) is this the source of repeated "Blocked mailbox..!!" messages which cause lock-ups on three Dell PowerEdge 2450s we have with AMI MegaRaid Enterprise 1500 controllers in them? Rob -- Robert Brooks,Systems Manager,

Re: aaaah! complete lockup 2.4.0-test9 SPARC32

2000-10-10 Thread Anton Blanchard
Working our way up, Pete noticed that _sparc_free_io() wasn't aligning plen properly... problem solved. While we were there, we noticed a few more problems in the file (misuse of a #define, and poor renaming of copied code). At this point, the dbri driver is properly loadable and

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Linus Torvalds wrote: You can also still do the stack pointer plaything by just using indirection: and when you context switch you switch the pointer around at the base of the per-cpu interrupt stack. Indirection, à la "current = *(stack ~8191)" might not be a bad idea in general. As Ralf

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt?

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
important here (and it could just be a simple configuration error.) Still, unless I'm mistaken, isn't an 8259A a UART, which should be related to the serial port? Seems odd it would show up on IRQ 7... 8259A is the interrupt controller on a PC. (A pair of them actually). They raise IRQ 7 if

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Albert D. Cahalan wrote: X, and any other big friendly processes, could participate in memory balancing operations. X could be made to clean out a font cache when the kernel signals that memory is low. When the situation becomes serious, X could just mmap /dev/zero over top of the background

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
Alan Cox wrote: - Fix the megaraid (revert if need be) is this the source of repeated "Blocked mailbox..!!" messages which cause lock-ups on three Dell PowerEdge 2450s we have with AMI MegaRaid Enterprise 1500 controllers in them? The current 2.2.18pre does this with certain specific

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
Linus Torvalds wrote: You can also still do the stack pointer plaything by just using indirection: and when you context switch you switch the pointer around = at the base of the per-cpu interrupt stack. Indirection, =E0 la "current =3D *(stack ~8191)" might not be a bad ide= a in

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Andreas Dilger wrote: Having a SIGDANGER handler is good for 2 reasons: 1) Lets processes know when memory is short so they can free needless cache. 2) Mark process with a SIGDANGER handler as "more important" than those without. Most people won't care about this, but init, and X, and

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread J.A. Sutherland
--On 09 October 2000, 17:40 -0300 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, James Sutherland wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: so dns helper is killed first, then netscape. (my idea might not make sense though.)

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:54:11 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having the stacks aligned also isnt good for the caches. If you are bored some time instrument the cache lines that wake_up() touches on a wake. Its very common to see most of them being on the

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:17:31AM +0200, Markus Pfeiffer wrote: Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:43:33AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: Btw, reading the ATA/ATAPI-6 specs I think UDMA66 should work on a setup where would be just one drive and a really short, 40-wire cable

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:27:04AM -0500, Jordan wrote: I have tried moving the Kenwood CDROM and the Zip between channels and this works well. I would get rid of the zip if it was a viable option but need it to do transfers, and the IBM has a real UDMA 66 cable and upto ATA 100 capability

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-10 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 11:52:33AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Alan Cox announced: 2.2.18pre15 I'd like to know if there are any issues with the current dc390-2.0e or 2.0e3 drivers that prevent its inclusion/that prevent Kurt from submitting it for inclusion. As per

Re: Weird combo: VIA vt82c586b+IBM djna-371800+Toshiba XM-5702b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 06:01:32AM -0500, Gnea wrote: So here's the scoop: I'm putting together this system for my sister to dual-boot Linux (debian) and Windows 98. Originally, I had an IBM 1.7gig ata33 hard drive in there, and everything worked fine. Then she decided she wanted to have

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-10 Thread Markus
I already pointed this out :-). Its not only write caching (dev null doesnt write at all) I think its read caching (read ahead) Cheers Markus "Mike A. Harris" wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, blizbor wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: The fastest ATA drives out that are not public

getting struct pci_dev from struct netdevice

2000-10-10 Thread aprasad
hi all, given struct netdevice for any pci network device, is there any way to get corresponding "struct pci_dev". - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: getting struct pci_dev from struct netdevice

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:44:40PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, given struct netdevice for any pci network device, is there any way to get corresponding "struct pci_dev". No. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: No SCSI burning problem - ZIP reading problem

2000-10-10 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Andries Brouwer wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:37:38PM +, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: I'm having some serious problems with parallel port ZIP with latest 2.4.0-test9 kernel Oct 9 16:57:23 dual kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel Oct 9 16:57:24 dual kernel:

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Jordan
I am currently booted into a 2.4.0-test10-pre1 kernel with two modifications, the VIA 3.6 drivers you have provided and the Patch from Andre that you sent. My IBM is the primary master with the zip as its slave and the Kenwood is the secondary master with the Plextor as its slave. Here is my

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
Hi! Ok, that means Andre's patch works. Congrats, Andre! Now, could you send me 'hdparm -i /dev/hdb' for the ZIP? It seems to be in SWDMA0 mode, which is interesting, because I thought it can't do that. You probably have some newer model. Do all your drives work correctly now? Thanks for your

Re: kernel 2.4.0-test9 and Cisco Pix Firewall - Might be a bug???

2000-10-10 Thread David S. Miller
echo "0" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Yes, Cisco does know about the bug in their product. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

RE: getting struct pci_dev from struct netdevice

2000-10-10 Thread Phillips, Mike
hi all, given struct netdevice for any pci network device, is there any way to get corresponding "struct pci_dev". No. Not directly, but pci_dev knows about netdevice, so you can scan the pci_dev's to find a match with the required netdevice. (Or do a similar match search on base_addr)

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread kumon
Based of my measurement on i386 smp configuration, If a system has plenty of runnable tasks, schedule() produces noticable amount of cache misses at runqueue-head traversing and the goodness calculations. David S. Miller writes: Some of us actually have instrumented it :-) I added a coloring

Re: getting struct pci_dev from struct netdevice

2000-10-10 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Phillips, Mike" wrote: hi all, given struct netdevice for any pci network device, is there any way to get corresponding "struct pci_dev". No. Not directly, but pci_dev knows about netdevice, so you can scan the pci_dev's to find a match with the required netdevice Or really?

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt?

2000-10-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Daniel Lange wrote: Periodically, I get the following error with the 2.4.0test9 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. [SNIPPED...] This will sometimes happen with the 8259A and really should not even be logged. There is a default handler for all interrupts. If this

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread Andrew Morton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Security * Fix module remove race bug (still to be done: TTY, ldisc, I2C, video_device - Al Viro) (Rogier Wolff will handle ATM) Patch for tty and ldisc is in your inbox... ... 8. Fix Exists But Isnt Merged ... * Many network device

SCSI lock-up when scanning with SNAPSCAN1236

2000-10-10 Thread Bernd Porr
Hi There! 1.: SCSI lock-up when scanning with SNAPSCAN1236 2.: I have an AGFA SNAP-scan 1236S and used it with the kernel 2.2.16 and with the new beta-test-kernel 2.4.0-test9. The SCSI-Controller is a aha152x and is working fine with the 2.2.16 kernel except that there is an error message from

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Marco Colombo
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: I'd prefer just X having a higher "mm nice level" or something. Which it has, because: 1) CAP_RAW_IO 2) p-euid == 0 Oh, I agree, but we might want to generalize this a bit so that root could

Re: lowish-latency patch for 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Andi Kleen wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:00:36PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: The little-low-latency patch for test9 is at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/2.4.0-test9-low-latency.patch Notes: - It now passes Benno's tests with 50% headroom (thanks to Ingo's

RE: getting struct pci_dev from struct netdevice

2000-10-10 Thread Phillips, Mike
Hi Andrew, Take a look at the olympic driver (drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c) function olympic_proc_info. This is called from a read into the proc filesystem. When we get the read we want to print out details on all the olympic devices in the system so we have to scan the pci tree and find a

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: "David S. Miller" wrote: Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:44:58 +0200 From: "Andi Kleen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:41:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: I dont actually know a CPU that doesnt have

Fwd: set_rtc_mmss ?

2000-10-10 Thread Chen Shiyuan
Oops.. sorry for the typo. The server in question is running linux-2.2.16 tarball from ftp.kernel.org instead of 2.2.17 . Thanks! - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:28:14 +0800 (SGT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Matrox framebuffer

2000-10-10 Thread Daniel Podlejski
I have problem with Matrox G400 framebuffer. After turn on computer, kernel freez durning boot with snow on my monitor. When I start it with options video=matrox:disbled, and run XFree86 4.0.1 with official drivers from Matrox web page, and reboot my computer again - everything works fine. From

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:38:02AM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote: Init should never die. If we get to do_exit in init we'll panic which is the right thing to do (reboot on critical systems). If the page fault can fail with OOM on init, init will get a SIGSEGV while running a signal handler

OnStream SCSI tape driver osst

2000-10-10 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Linus, hi Alan, I'd like to get some driver included into the mainstream kernels. The driver is a new high-level SCSI driver, which was derived from the standard st driver. It drives the OnStream tape drives SC-30/50 (SCSI) and DI-30 (IDE, via ide-scsi) and USB-30 (USB, via usb-storage). The

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread davej
I tried the patch, but the result is the same... Uncompressing Linux..., now booting the kernel..., NOTHING These Winchips need all the help they can get, so if you know something else I might try... Ok, I've narrowed it down to the changes to mtrr.c in test8 Looks like the Cyrix III

A patch to loop.c for better cryption support

2000-10-10 Thread Ingo Rohloff
Hi, First some explanation. Most cryption algorithms initialize the cryption process with some init values, called IV (by me :-). This means that two identical clear messages will give different encrypted messages, if different IVs are used. The loop device supports different IVs; the IVs are

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:06:49AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: If you want init to live - prove that it don't eat too much memory. I don't see why the machine should be stable only if init is small. My kernel won't be stable only if init is small since it doesn't cost anything to handle

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Rogier Wolff
Linus Torvalds wrote: Basically, the only thing _I_ think X can do is to really say "oh, please don't count my memory, because everything I do I do for my clients, not for myself". THAT is my argument. Basically there is nothing we can reliably account. So we might as well fall back on

Re: OnStream SCSI tape driver osst

2000-10-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
(There is a second generation drive, ADR-x0, which has a much more advanced firmware and does fully comply with SCSI-2 spec, BTW.) 'fully'? Not. This latter drive has had problems too, but it seems to me that the arrival of the ADR-50 should preclude the need to support the ADR-30. - To

Segfaults using xawtv

2000-10-10 Thread John Coppens
Hi... I _hate_ to do this, but I couldn't find (except for a reference to "others who have segfaults using glibc") no reference to this problem. Insmod of i2c, videodev and bttv succeed without problems or any message in /var/log/debug, messages or syslog. Also, though I'm surely no expert,

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote: The algorithm you posted on the list in this thread will kill init if on 4Mbyte machine without swap init is large 3 Mbytes and you execute a task that grows over 1M. This sounds suspiciously like the description of a DEAD system ;) But

[PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Ingo Oeser
[OOM killer war] Hi there, before you argue endlessly about the "Right OOM Killer (TM)", I did a small patch to allow replacing the OOM killer at runtime. You can even use modules, if you are careful (see khttpd on how to do this without refcouting). So now you can stop arguing about the one

RE: getting struct pci_dev from struct netdevice

2000-10-10 Thread Phillips, Mike
Doesn't work for all devices. Also since base_addr is truncated to 16-bits when passed to ifconfig, this gets even nastier for userspace. You do the best you can with what's available :) ...and noone but the driver can trust this information to be pointing to an up-to-date struct

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:06:07PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote: The algorithm you posted on the list in this thread will kill init if on 4Mbyte machine without swap init is large 3 Mbytes and you

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: before you argue endlessly about the "Right OOM Killer (TM)", I did a small patch to allow replacing the OOM killer at runtime. So now you can stop arguing about the one and only OOM killer, implement it, provide it as module and get back to the

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:21:05AM -0500, Jordan wrote: Everything is working great! I can access my hard drive quickly, both CD drives are working and I can read and write to my zip as a partitioned drive or as a block device for Tar archives. Thanks for all of the help. Great. Thanks

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:30:51PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: Not killing init when we "should" definately prevents embedded systems from auto-rebooting when they should do so. (OTOH, I don't think embedded systems will run into this OOM issue too much) but when they do, they're hard to

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: So now you can stop arguing about the one and only OOM killer, implement it, provide it as module and get back to the important stuff ;-) This is definately a cool toy for people who have doubts that my OOM killer will do the

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-10 Thread Ishikawa
Kurt Garloff wrote: Actually, 2.0e3 did include one rather important fix which solved the trouble: Some devices get upset, when the driver tries to negotiate sync (or wide) connections, but the device actually does not support it. So, the driver now waits for the first INQUIRY result and

[BUG] in check_asm.c on sun4m

2000-10-10 Thread Taco IJsselmuiden
Hi, While trying 2.4.0-test10-pre1 on my Sun4m SparcSystem600, i'm getting an error during 'make dep' ;(( I don't know anything about assembly, so there I can't help, but here's the output: galaxy:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4-0-test10-pre1# make dep make -C arch/sparc/kernel check_asm make[1]:

RAID setup

2000-10-10 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I want to setup RAID. I am working on kernel version 2.2.12. I am using RAID patches available. I create a RAID configuring file called /etc/raidtab #mkraid /dev/md0/*md0 is the device I am selecting*/ After this when I check /proc/mdstat , I find

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:20:07PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: Btw, reading the ATA/ATAPI-6 specs I think UDMA66 should work on a setup where would be just one drive and a really short, 40-wire cable without problems as well. I've even seen systems shipped like that. uh, what part of the

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: You can also still do the stack pointer plaything by just using indirection: and when you context switch you switch the pointer around at the base of the per-cpu interrupt stack. Indirection, à la

Re: {PATCH] Re: wasting time on page fault

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: The assembler doesn't use nops for alignment -- it inserts longer instructions that are effectively nops, either 1 or two. For larger stretches, the assembler inserts a jmp itself for alignment. Note that some of them are not very good no-ops. At

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread lamont
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Byron Stanoszek wrote: it also might be good to have options to kill anything connected to a pty first, and to not kill anything attatched to the console. obviously these leave ways for admins to shoot themselves in the foot, but they could be useful. I _had_

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: So if Netscape can "pump" 40 extra megabytes of memory out of X, this can be exploited. Now we're back to the point that a heuristic can never be right all the time.. I agree. In fact, we never left that. Nothing is perfect. In fact, a

Re: {PATCH] Re: wasting time on page fault

2000-10-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Linus Torvalds wrote: The assembler doesn't use nops for alignment -- it inserts longer instructions that are effectively nops, either 1 or two. For larger stretches, the assembler inserts a jmp itself for alignment. Note that some of them are not very good no-ops. At least at some

Re: Interrupt/Sleep deadlock

2000-10-10 Thread Ivan Passos
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Ivan Passos wrote: In order to get the configuration of a board, I have to send, from userspace, an ioctl to the driver and wait for the board to complete its action. The way this is implemented is as follows: - In the ioctl, the driver sends a command to the board and

Re: kernel.org verification key updated

2000-10-10 Thread Walter Hofmann
I cannot verify this signature with gpg or pgp. gpg says gpg: invalid radix64 character 00 skipped gpg: Signature made Tue Oct 10 08:26:46 2000 MEST using DSA key ID 2BCBC621 gpg: BAD signature from "H. Peter Anvin (hpa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Walter -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
Dave, This patch fixed the problems, for now. The system now boots OK, and seems to run OK (have not hit it very hard yet since it currently runs without a heatsink). Tnanks... Cheers//Frank -- W ___ ## o o\/ Frank de Lange \ }# \| /

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread James Simmons
Either you forgot to attach the patch for it was bigger than 40K. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Frank de Lange wrote: Dave, This patch fixed the problems, for now. The system now boots OK, and seems to run OK (have not hit it very hard yet since it currently runs without a heatsink). Tnanks...

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
James, The patch I referred to can be found in Dave's message... I gave him some feedback on the problems with Winchips... Cheers//Frank -- W ___ ## o o\/ Frank de Lange \ }# \| / \ ##---# _/ Hacker for Hire \

Re: Interrupt/Sleep deadlock

2000-10-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ivan Passos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "You could use a semaphore for this. Initialize it to 0, then call down() from the ioctl, and up() from the interrupt handler. If the up() happens before the down(), the down() won't go to sleep." Initializing it to 0 means:

[OT] linux article with kernel references

2000-10-10 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley15.html good article, several unfortunate truths within. -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTTV/TDA card, msp34xx keeps trying to come up

2000-10-10 Thread Gerd Knorr
bttv0: model: BT848A( *** UNKNOWN *** ) [autodetected] How about fixing this first? The card list knows about a few cards where it better should'nt load the msp3400 driver... i2c-dev.o: Registered 'bt848 #0' as minor 0 msp34xx: I/O error #1 (read 0x12/0x1e) msp34xx: I/O error #2 (read

OOPS REPORT: Will someone _please_ look at this? (was Re: BUG OOPS REPORT: /proc/scsi/ entries not properly cleaned up)

2000-10-10 Thread Matthew Dharm
Yet more followup with myself I can reproduce this problem on 2.4.0-test10-pre1 every time. I'm using the ide-scsi and usb-storage modules to trigger the bug -- loading and then unloading either one causes /proc/scsi to not be cleaned up properly. As yet, nobody has indicated to me that

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Miles Lane
Olaf Titz wrote: Still, it would be nice to recover that 4 MB when the system doesn't have any memory left. Yup. The X server could give back the memory for some cases like the background without too much hackery. Then Linux only needs to implement SIGDANGER, which has been talked

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Jordan
Sorry if you get multiple copies of this--I have tried sending twice already and have yet to see it on the kernel-list. Jordan Here are hdparms for all my devices-- `hdparm -i /dev/hda` IBM Deskstar 7200 RPM: /dev/hda: Model=IBM-DTLA-307075, FwRev=TXAOA50C, SerialNo=YS0YSF3Z455 Config={

Re: Incorrect UDMA timing on VIA vt82c596b

2000-10-10 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:42:51PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: Btw, reading the ATA/ATAPI-6 specs I think UDMA66 should work on a setup where would be just one drive and a really short, 40-wire cable without problems as well. I've even seen systems shipped like that. uh, what part

vgaconsole driver SMP safe fix against linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-10-10 Thread Yong Chi
My first contribution to kernel =) Someone please look over this one carefully =) Thanks --- vgacon.c.bakTue Oct 10 13:50:09 2000 +++ vgacon.cTue Oct 10 14:48:06 2000 @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ * flashing on RHS of screen during heavy console scrolling . * Oct 1996, Paul

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: before you argue endlessly about the "Right OOM Killer (TM)", I did a small patch to allow replacing the OOM killer at runtime. So now you can stop arguing about the one and only OOM

Re: kernel.org verification key updated

2000-10-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems that there was some mangling problems going on with the message I sent last night, so I wanted to try to re-send it with a proper signature this time... Hi everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know that we have changed the

Re: DProbes with LTT

2000-10-10 Thread richardj_moore
Karim, I've been back through an initial evaluation we did for LTT, back in May. One of the feature we highlighted we'd like to see was an ability to specify custom formatting templates. Our original OS/2 trace facility allowed the user to generate formatting templates which would specify

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread David Hinds
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:08:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am one of those people that uses PCMCIA on an SMP machine, I also use 2.4. Aside from the very occasional problem, I don't see any locking issues. Is it possible to just leave it as is with a warning? I think the

2.3.99 pre2 CBQ

2000-10-10 Thread Rameshbabu Prabagaran
Hi all Has anyone tried testing CBQ with 2.3.99 pre2 kernel. I tried to set up CBQ on an ATM interface and was not able to notice any differentiation or treatment to packets even when I use 'bounded' with the tc commands. I tried to test it with a 2.2.10 kernel using ds-8 and appropriate tc,

Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: test [PATCH] new vgacon and vga16fb Part II

2000-10-10 Thread James Simmons
And I suggest this addition (cfr. the other fbcon-*.c since 2.4.0-test5-pre5): Done. I have alot more big changes coming :-) - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Capable Of Corrupting Your FS/data * Non-atomic page-map operations can cause loss of dirty bit on pages (sct, alan) Is anybody looking into fixing this bug ? 9. To Do * mm-rss is modified in some places without holding

Re: [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 OOM handler)

2000-10-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Tom Rini wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:32:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote: before you argue endlessly about the "Right OOM Killer (TM)", I did a small patch to allow replacing the OOM killer at runtime. So now you

__bad_udelay in 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
2.2.18pre15 defines udelay as (in file include/asm-i386/delay.h) : ... extern void __bad_udelay(void); ... #define udelay(n) (__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \ ((n) 2 ? __bad_udelay() : __const_udelay((n) * 0x10c6ul)) : \ __udelay(n)) ... It seems __bad_udelay is not

Re: __bad_udelay in 2.2.18pre15

2000-10-10 Thread Marcus Sundberg
Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.2.18pre15 defines udelay as (in file include/asm-i386/delay.h) : ... extern void __bad_udelay(void); ... #define udelay(n) (__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \ ((n) 2 ? __bad_udelay() : __const_udelay((n) * 0x10c6ul)) : \

2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
Hi, Finally got around to trying out 2.4.0test9. I'm going to do some VM performance comparisons (incidentally because VM should be a carefully measured science not random cool idea of the day which we have seen too much of recently). Unfortunately, I can't start fair tests yet because UDMA3

Re: Further info on CDR-writing problems under 2.2.16

2000-10-10 Thread Athanasius
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Athanasius wrote: I'm on 2.2.17pre13 (not the latest I know, I need to sort out compiling latest and a reboot), my Mitsumi CR-4804TE CD-R/RW drive seems to work happily enough with xcdroast to write one disk, but then goes into super sulk mode,

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Frank de Lange
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:10:48PM -0700, James Simmons wrote: Dave, This patch fixed the problems, for now. The system now boots OK, and seems to run OK (have not hit it very hard yet since it currently runs without a heatsink). Tnanks... Cheers//Frank Oops... looks like I was

Re: tmscsim update for Linux 2.2.18pre15?

2000-10-10 Thread Matthias Andree
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: Actually, 2.0e3 did include one rather important fix which solved the Uh. Fix? This sounds like working around very broken devices to me, or are devices allowed to wreak havoc if sync negotiation is tried in spite of not being advertised in inquiry

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you fell to ATA33. You RHS 7.0 kernel does not have all

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got were real and the kernel did properly respeed the drive to one step slower. The problem above prevented you from going from ATA66 to ATA44, thus you fell

Re: getting struct pci_dev from struct netdevice

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
Not directly, but pci_dev knows about netdevice, so you can scan the pci_dev's to find a match with the required netdevice. (Or do a similar match search on base_addr) Not I suspect reliably. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt?

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
Initializing CPU#0 You are using a SMP kernel on a `386 UP machine. That tends to make these burps show up. It is harmless, though. It says this either way Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 3.10 BogoMIPS This shows something I don't understand. Either the counter

Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

2000-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
Ok, I've narrowed it down to the changes to mtrr.c in test8 Looks like the Cyrix III changes broke things. Didn't something similar happen when these changes made it into a 2.2.18pre ? Alan? 2.2.18pre12 or so had a bug with Winchip but its fixed in pre15 I believe, at least my winchip is

Re: 2.4.0test-9: IDE problems

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Hedrick
Also set this option "CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB" because you are in the transistion period of drive manufacturing. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Chris Evans wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: Basically you have drive that caught in the word93 rules change. However, the error you got

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