Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us> wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it 
>>failed on both.
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>>Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in 
>>interrupt routine
>>for my rtl8139.
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>>This device works fine in 2.6.20.2
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>That's regression #1.  Are you able to take a photograph of the screen
>when it has crashed?  Setting the display to 50 rows would make that more
>useful.  (serial console would be better, but I assume that thing has
>no serial port).
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>>The other laptop is a hp n5430 it fail in the ali-pata driver not being 
>>able to read the cdrom, timeing out
>>and dropping into a bash shell telling me to tell it where the root 
>>filesystem is.
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>That's #2, I guess.
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>>Also it sets my hard
>>drive to udma/33 when it run find at udma/66 under 2.6.20.1.
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>#3.  Hopefully it's related to #2.
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>Please send the full dmesg output for 2.6.20.1 on the n5430.
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>>It would 
>>really be nice if the people makeing
>>all these changes would at least keep things compatible with what they 
>>were before. These are regressions
>>guys!
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>We try ;)
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>>This hp n5430 system works fine with 2.6.20.1.
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>Thanks, it helps.
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I'll see if I can get a serial port console setup on each laptop, 
failing that I'll take a
photo.

Thanks,
Steve

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