From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262986AbTJOMPJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:15:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262987AbTJOMPJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:15:09 -0400 Received: from hugin.maersk-moller.net ([193.88.237.237]:41860 "EHLO hugin.maersk-moller.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262986AbTJOMPD (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:15:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8D3A47.1000804@maersk-moller.net> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:15:03 +0200 From: Peter Maersk-Moller Organization: Visit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: aic7xxx lockup for SMP for 2.4.22 References: <3F8D1377.3060509@maersk-moller.net> In-Reply-To: <3F8D1377.3060509@maersk-moller.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi More info on the subject. It turns out that a 2.4.22 kernel without SMP-support but with IO-APIC enabled will also lock-up/stop when it installs the aic7xxx driver upon boot. Disabling the IO-APIC and disabling SMP-support makes the kernel boot normally. Peter Maersk-Moller wrote: > Hi > Recent postings on this suggest some changes/problems with > aic7xxx, but none of them seems to be like this. > It seems that the aic7xxx driver while booting a SMP enabled > 2.4.22 kernel waits (lock-up?) forever. > The lock-up does not happen if I disable SMP, make distclean > and recompile the kernel. > The controller used is a PCI based Adaptec 29160 (aic7892). > The board is a dual Pentium III DBD100 from Iwill. > Compiler GCC 3.2.3 > Distro : Slackware 9.1 > Has anyone else seen this ? Kind regards ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Maersk-Moller ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ogg/Vorbis support for MPEG4IP. YUV12, XviD, AVI and MP4 support for libmpeg2. See http://www.maersk-moller.net/projects/ ----------------------------------------------------------------