From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:47:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040302144757.60a0630c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040302185518.GA2886@middle.of.nowhere>
Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> After upgrading my memory from 1 Gb to 2.5 Gb my 2.6.3-mm4 kernel
> wouldn't boot anymore.
>
> It hang when detecting the scsi-chip.
> I had in my .config:
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
>
> the default value.
>
> The scsi bus kept resetting before detecting any devices. Interestingly,
> 2.6.3-mm1 did boot with that .config setting. Once I recompiled
> 2.6.3-mm4 with
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=0
>
> it booted (and worked) fine.
>
> So, something regressed in 2.6.3-mm4 versus 2.6.3-mm1, so the default
> setting didn't work correctly anymore.
I don't know what caused this - there are a few patches in there which
touch the DMA and BIO highmem areas. Plus always the latest scsi
development tree.
> If there is anything I can test, please let me know.
Could you test Linus's current tree? The first link at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/.
If this bug hasn't hit Linus's tree yet, it will soon do so...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 18:55 Jurriaan
2004-03-02 22:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-03 19:15 ` Jurriaan
2004-03-03 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 8:10 ` Jurriaan
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