From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rcX in pretty bad shape on parisc Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:31:42 +0900 Message-ID: <1227061902.10371.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <49231FD0.9040409@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linux-parisc To: Helge Deller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49231FD0.9040409@gmx.de> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 21:04 +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > I've tried various -rc candidates in the last few weeks, and sadly the > parisc kernel is in pretty bad shape. > > At the beginning I started to get problems only when I had USB > keyboard/mouse attached to the PA machine. This lead to bugzilla > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11913 > > Now, with -rc4 and -rc5 things got even worse. > > Crashes happen often just directly at the beginning. > I'm sure it's not USB related any more, and I assume we have some > strange mm-problem somewhere. I'd be really dubious about that. Our pa8900 ... the most mm unstable system we have ... is running -rc5 just fine. The only warning before boot is the usual SMP one. Linux ion 2.6.28-rc5 #20 SMP Tue Nov 18 18:16:35 PST 2008 parisc64 Why don't we compare configs? This is mine for ion: http://parisc-linux.org/~jejb/config-2.6.28-rc5-ion I suspect we have some nasty interaction in the device driver subsystem (ion, the pa8900, isn't running either USB or PDC stable). James