Iustin,

watchdog driver should be handled by the module geodewdt

can you give me a list of your loaded modules and kernel options.
Seems I still have a problem with my host bridge

voyage:~/p910nd-0.9# lspci
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Unknown device 2080 
(rev 31)
00:01.2 Entertainment encryption device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 
Geode LX AES Security Block
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] 
(rev 96)
00:07.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] 
(rev 96)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] 
(rev 96)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M [Rhine-III] 
(rev 96)
00:14.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
companion] ISA (rev 03)
00:14.2 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
companion] IDE (rev 01)
00:14.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
companion] OHC (rev 02)
00:14.5 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
companion] EHC (rev 02)

Hans


 > On 6/24/2007 9:08 PM, Iustin Pop wrote:
> In case anyone is interested in running linux on the net5501, here are
> my initial results. I use a sandisk ultra-3 2G card (SanDisk
> SDCFX3-2048).
> 
> Debian etch installs without problems. I compiled then 2.6.21.5 and I
> have a few issues, not critical I would say:
>   - the compact flash card is not detected as dma-capable, and forcing
>     it doesn't work; the ide driver reports some errors in dmesg, see
>     below;
>   - the machine type as reported by "uname -m" is i586, so the
>     i686-optimised libc is not being used. From the AMD docs, I thought
>     the geode lx is supposed to implement all the ppro instruction set
>     (/proc/cpuinfo reports cmov), but who knows...
>   - I didn't find a driver which supports the watchdog, so for now I run
>     without it.
> 
> On the network performance side, things are looking really good (at
> least compared to 4801):
>  - desktop -> 5501, iperf: 95.9 MBits/s, cpu ~45% idle
>  - 5501 -> desktop, 94.8 MBits/s, cpu: around 40% (+/- 2%)idle bridging:
>  - (desktop -> 5501 -> laptop), iperf, > 90MBits/s, cpu ~95% idle
>  - bi-directional-line gets around 110MBits/s total (65Mb/s+45MB/s), I
>    suspect the laptop has issues (cpu usage : 100%) but the 5501 also
>    has 100% CPU usage
> 
> Anyway, this is only quick testing, but I'm glad that the 5501 can fill
> fast ethernet (with MTU-sized packets), something which (in my
> experience) the 4801 wasn't able to do. I'll test routing performance
> next, to see how that works.
> 
> For the no dma part, here is the relevant section of the dmesg:
> 
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> AMD5536: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.2
> AMD5536: chipset revision 1
> AMD5536: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> AMD5536: 0000:00:14.2 (rev 01) UDMA100 controller
> AMD5536: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: SanDisk SDCFX3-2048, CFA DISK drive
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
> hda: 4001760 sectors (2048 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=3970/16/63
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda4
> 
> Tuning with hdparm (-m4, -u1, -c1, -X mdmda2, but node that -d1 doesn't
> work) increases the speed from 1.8 only to 2.1 MB/s, which is very low
> (this card should do a maximum of 20MB/s). The part that seems strange
> to me is the "neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)".
> 
> regards,
> iustin
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