From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263777AbTJORkt (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:40:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263764AbTJORks (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:40:48 -0400 Received: from hugin.maersk-moller.net ([193.88.237.237]:20357 "EHLO hugin.maersk-moller.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263777AbTJORkk (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:40:40 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8D8690.9040104@maersk-moller.net> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:40:32 +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: Zwane Mwaikambo CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: aic7xxx lockup for SMP for 2.4.22 References: <3F8D1377.3060509@maersk-moller.net> <3F8D3A47.1000804@maersk-moller.net> In-Reply-To: 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 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: >>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. > How about UP and IO-APIC? Assuming UP means uni-processor, do you then mean removing one of the processors or just disabling (ie. not enabling) SMP ? The latter case (enabling IO-APIC and disabling SMP) makes the boot process halt when it come to activating the aic7xxx driver. --PMM ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Maersk-Moller ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ogg/Vorbis support for MPEG4IP. YUV12, XviD, AVI and MP4 support for libmpeg2. See http://www.maersk-moller.net/projects/ ----------------------------------------------------------------