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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Jason Papadopoulos <jasonp@boo.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rewritten page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:45:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030105204551.GK9704@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20030105150405.007dead0@boo.net>

At 11:34 AM 1/5/03 -0800, you wrote:
>> What kind of Alpha? Got an oops/backtrace?
>> I probably can't reproduce it directly since my Alpha's diskless.

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Jason Papadopoulos wrote:
> The machine in question is a DS10 Alphaserver (DP264 type chipset) using an
> ALI M5229 rev c1 IDE controller (uses the ALI 15x3 driver). The stock 2.5.53
> kernel panics at boot time because it can't find the root partition; when I
> first reported the problem, one of the maintainers passed on a patch that
> resolved some 2.5 IDE issues. With the patch in place, the boot process gets
> farther along but occaisionally there will be a printout that hda lost an 
> interrupt. I don't know how far it really gets, because I gave up after other
> subsystems started reporting errors.
> I haven't tried 2.5.54, either. I will shortly.
> Is 2.4 really in bug-fix mode now? 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 were huge patches.

Sounds like a job for the IDE crew, who appear to know there are
pending ali + Alpha issues.


Bill

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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Jason Papadopoulos <jasonp@boo.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rewritten page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:45:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030105204551.GK9704@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20030105150405.007dead0@boo.net>

At 11:34 AM 1/5/03 -0800, you wrote:
>> What kind of Alpha? Got an oops/backtrace?
>> I probably can't reproduce it directly since my Alpha's diskless.

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Jason Papadopoulos wrote:
> The machine in question is a DS10 Alphaserver (DP264 type chipset) using an
> ALI M5229 rev c1 IDE controller (uses the ALI 15x3 driver). The stock 2.5.53
> kernel panics at boot time because it can't find the root partition; when I
> first reported the problem, one of the maintainers passed on a patch that
> resolved some 2.5 IDE issues. With the patch in place, the boot process gets
> farther along but occaisionally there will be a printout that hda lost an 
> interrupt. I don't know how far it really gets, because I gave up after other
> subsystems started reporting errors.
> I haven't tried 2.5.54, either. I will shortly.
> Is 2.4 really in bug-fix mode now? 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 were huge patches.

Sounds like a job for the IDE crew, who appear to know there are
pending ali + Alpha issues.


Bill
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-05 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-05 16:03 [PATCH] rewritten page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel jasonp
2003-01-05 16:03 ` jasonp
2003-01-05 19:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-05 19:34   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-05 20:04   ` Jason Papadopoulos
2003-01-05 20:04     ` Jason Papadopoulos
2003-01-05 20:45     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-01-05 20:45       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-15  5:45     ` [PATCH] page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel, version 2 Jason Papadopoulos
2003-01-15  5:45       ` Jason Papadopoulos
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-05  4:31 [PATCH] rewritten page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel Jason Papadopoulos
2003-01-05  4:31 ` Jason Papadopoulos
2003-01-05  5:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-05  5:07   ` William Lee Irwin III

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