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Subject: Re: Tyan Opteron boards and problems with parallel ports (badpmd)
From: Christopher Warner <chris@servertogo.com>
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Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:50:01 -0400
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On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:27 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote:
> CW = Christopher Warner
> CW>>>> The tyan boards I have in here right now appear to
> CW>>>> work properly except for the pmd issue, i've noticed
> CW>>>> nothing wrong with them besides that.
> 
> PS = Peter J. Stieber
> PS>>> Same here.
> 
> CW>>>> What we need is to try and single out the variables that
> CW>>>> are causing the badpmd's. Also the more people who
> CW>>>> report badpmd's with Andi Kleen's intial patch the better.
> CW>>>> Especially on different archs; would also be good. So
> CW>>>> far from lkml i'm only seeing Tyan S28* boards as of
> CW>>>> recent.
> 
> PS>>> Does the Dave Jones provided Fedora Core 3 kernel I'm running
> PS>>> (2.6.11-1.29_FC3smp) have Andi's patch?
> PS>>>
> PS>>> I guess that question was fo Dave ;-)
> 
> DJ = Dave Jones
> DJ>> not the latest iteration no.
> 
> PS> I'd be willing to try it if you could provide it Dave.
> 
> I (and others) have been running a new FC3 kernel provided by Dave 
> (2.6.11-1.31_FC3smp) for a while know and it seems to have fixed this 
> problem.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg00243.html
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg00246.html
> 
> Dave will have to comment with respect to what changes were made to this 
> version.
> Pete 

If it's just the 2.6.11.11 inclusion as Dave said then i'll upgrade and
see what happens if anything. Hopefully, it's beating a dead horse;
dead.

Thanks everyone for the help and thanks to Andi and whoever else
actually fixed it :-)

Christopher Warner