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 23:20:23 +0900 Message-ID: <1227104423.10371.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <49231FD0.9040409@gmx.de> <1227061902.10371.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081119091327.GB3270@tilt.dandreoli.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Helge Deller , linux-parisc To: Domenico Andreoli Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081119091327.GB3270@tilt.dandreoli.com> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:13 +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:31:42AM +0900, James Bottomley wrote: > > 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. > > my j5600 is also running fine > > > Linux ion 2.6.28-rc5 #20 SMP Tue Nov 18 18:16:35 PST 2008 parisc64 > > parisc64 SMP? have you all the cpu online? Yes, all four (two sockets, two cores). James