From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 May 2002 10:51:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 May 2002 10:51:20 -0400 Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.nl ([194.134.35.136]:61376 "EHLO smtp1.wanadoo.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 May 2002 10:51:20 -0400 Message-Id: <4.1.20020511114723.009c8270@pop.cablewanadoo.nl> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 16:46:09 +0200 To: Dave Jones From: Rudmer van Dijk Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.14-dj2 Cc: Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20020508225147.GA11390@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 23:51 8-5-02 +0100, Dave Jones wrote: >Some more pending items, including a large patch from Patrick >which splits the x86 CPU initialisation code up a lot, cleaning >up a lot of cruft in the process. Feedback on this welcomed from >users of as many weird and wonderful x86 variants as can be found. >2.5.14-dj2 Got these errors while compiling: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/Upload/linux-2.5.14-dj2/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -nostdinc -I /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3/include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=proc -c -o proc.o proc.c proc.c: In function `show_cpuinfo': proc.c:69: warning: passing arg 2 of `constant_test_bit' from incompatible pointer type proc.c:69: warning: passing arg 2 of `variable_test_bit' from incompatible pointer type proc.c:99: warning: passing arg 2 of `constant_test_bit' from incompatible pointer type proc.c:99: warning: passing arg 2 of `variable_test_bit' from incompatible pointer type found a few other problems: 1) the pio fix posted last week is not included in your tree or Linus' and I found this the hard way: severe filesystem damage and system lockup and a kernel (2.4.19-pre8) panic because the root partition could not be mounted (as reported before). The following patch fixes this, apllies with an offset of -2 lines: -- begin patch -- --- linux-2.5.10/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c Wed Apr 24 16:15:19 2002 +++ linux/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c Fri Apr 26 15:44:42 2002 @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ ata_write_slow(drive, buffer, wcount); else #endif - ata_write_16(drive, buffer, wcount<<1); + ata_write_16(drive, buffer, wcount); } } -- end patch -- 2) After boot the system is not responsive to the keyboard, logging in via ssh and doing a `insmod psmouse` followed by a `rmmod psmouse` results in a working keyboard... before and after insmod there is no interrupt 1 listed in /proc/interrupts, but after doing the rmmod it is listed: " 1: 52 XT-PIC i8042" the mouse interrupt is listed as " 12: 154 XT-PIC i8042" the following message was issued after `rmmod psmouse`: "input: AT Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0" After applying the pio-fix I was able to run both 2.5.13-dj2 and 2.5.14-dj1 for three days on this system (p100, 48MB, 2x IDE-hd) without ext2-filesystem corruption or lockups!! 2.5.14-dj2 is now running for 4 hours and I am going to stress-test it :-) Rudmer