From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO-APIC -- lockup on machine if enabled
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:07:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15505.61940.536141.204015@kim.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020315100502.GA12793@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <200203132052.VAA08581@harpo.it.uu.se> <20020315100502.GA12793@merlin.emma.line.org>
Matthias Andree writes:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> > p.s. The update for 2.4.19-pre3 and the full kit for 2.4.18 are
> > at <http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.4/> as usual.
>
> Does that also fix the "crashes on switch back from X11 to text (or
> frame buffer) console" that's been around since 2.4.9 or 2.4.10, but not
> before, that bites so many users of SuSE Linux 7.3?
> de.comp.os.unix.linux.* has at least one report every week. SuSE shipped
> kernel 2.4.10 with 7.3.
The dmi-apic-fixups patch ONLY deals with disabling use of the local
APIC (or parts of it in some cases, e.g. AL440LX) when a known broken
BIOS or machine is detected by the DMI scan.
Without an adequate analysis of the problem you describe above I can't
even guess what the fix might be.
/Mikael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-15 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-13 20:52 Mikael Pettersson
2002-03-13 22:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 10:05 ` Matthias Andree
2002-03-15 13:07 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-13 20:53 Mikael Pettersson
2002-03-13 13:34 Josh Fryman
2002-03-13 14:10 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-13 15:58 ` Jonathan H N Chin
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