From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:34:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050917163434.GB24322@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050917161617.GA23171@kroah.com>
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:16:17AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:59:14AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:47:03AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> > > > >So does reverting this patch solve the problem?
> > > >
> > > > I reversing
> > > > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h\x064b53dbcc977dbf2753a67c2b8fc1c061d74f21,
> > > > which appears to be the latest version of this patch. There was a
> > > > patch reject in sparc64, but the common code was reverted. IA64 (SGI
> > > > Altix) with that patch reverted now boots 2.6.14-rc1.
> > >
> > > Anyone know anything more about this problem? I'm not seeing it
> > > on any of my systems ... so perhaps it only affects cards with a
> > > PCI bridge on them, or cards that haven't already been initialized
> > > by EFI.
> >
> > I posted a patch on Wednesday:
> >
> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2193.html
> >
> > The original reporter (Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>) confirmed this
> > patch to fix the problem.
>
> Yes, and a number of people objected to that patch. Care to respond to
> them?
We are working on an SN-only workaround. No guarantee, but the person
working on it is optimistic that we can fix the problem in SN code
w/o making any generic changes. I should know more on Monday.
Long term, we are making SN ACPI compliant - or at leeast a lot closer.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) 651-683-5302
Principal Engineer SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:34:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050917163434.GB24322@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050917161617.GA23171@kroah.com>
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:16:17AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:59:14AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:47:03AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> > > > >So does reverting this patch solve the problem?
> > > >
> > > > I reversing
> > > > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=064b53dbcc977dbf2753a67c2b8fc1c061d74f21,
> > > > which appears to be the latest version of this patch. There was a
> > > > patch reject in sparc64, but the common code was reverted. IA64 (SGI
> > > > Altix) with that patch reverted now boots 2.6.14-rc1.
> > >
> > > Anyone know anything more about this problem? I'm not seeing it
> > > on any of my systems ... so perhaps it only affects cards with a
> > > PCI bridge on them, or cards that haven't already been initialized
> > > by EFI.
> >
> > I posted a patch on Wednesday:
> >
> > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2193.html
> >
> > The original reporter (Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>) confirmed this
> > patch to fix the problem.
>
> Yes, and a number of people objected to that patch. Care to respond to
> them?
We are working on an SN-only workaround. No guarantee, but the person
working on it is optimistic that we can fix the problem in SN code
w/o making any generic changes. I should know more on Monday.
Long term, we are making SN ACPI compliant - or at leeast a lot closer.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
Thanks
Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) 651-683-5302
Principal Engineer SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-17 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 5:22 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64 Keith Owens
2005-09-13 5:22 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 5:37 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-13 5:37 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-13 6:17 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 6:17 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 6:47 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-13 6:47 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-13 6:59 ` Greg KH
2005-09-13 6:59 ` Greg KH
2005-09-13 6:48 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 6:48 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 7:27 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 7:27 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-17 15:47 ` Tony Luck
2005-09-17 15:47 ` Tony Luck
2005-09-17 15:59 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-17 15:59 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-17 16:16 ` Greg KH
2005-09-17 16:16 ` Greg KH
2005-09-17 16:34 ` Jack Steiner [this message]
2005-09-17 16:34 ` Jack Steiner
2005-09-17 16:48 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-17 16:48 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-17 16:46 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-17 16:46 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-18 6:23 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-18 6:23 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-18 6:33 ` Tony Luck
2005-09-18 6:33 ` Tony Luck
2005-09-18 11:44 ` Jack Steiner
2005-09-18 11:44 ` Jack Steiner
[not found] <20050919204523.GD15838@sgi.com>
2005-09-19 22:43 ` Mike Habeck
2005-09-20 1:14 ` David S. Miller
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