From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: insmod ipv6 freezes current linuxppc-2.5 and 2.5-benh From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Harald Welte Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev list In-Reply-To: <20031213090332.GH8950@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> References: <20031120201249.GB29432@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <1069386878.876.49.camel@gaston> <20031121153314.GC23224@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20031130155530.GK26749@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> <1070380779.5675.16.camel@thor.asgaard.local> <20031213090332.GH8950@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1071398331.1642.105.camel@thor.asgaard.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:38:51 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 10:03, Harald Welte wrote: > > The actual problem seems not to be an infinite loop, but rather a very > long loop. IF you wait long enough, it will eventually work. A > significant delay (i.e. assumed long loop) is also observed while > loading any module. Something like 10 - 15 seconds for every module > that I'm loading during startup (ipv6, tulip, dmasound_pmac, ...) > > The machine is completely frozen during that loop, not even the cursor > is blinking anymore. > > compiling the kernel with gcc 2.95 or 3.0 removes those symptoms. As I'm not seeing this, you may want to compare your .config to mine, which is http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/config-2.6.0-test11-benh -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/