From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John David Anglin Subject: Re: Kernel Panic on 4 cores hp c8000 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 16:50:28 -0400 Message-ID: <57042514.7000503@bell.net> References: <56FD5C30.4020409@gmx.de> <57040A95.2040509@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Cc: Simone Mannori , linux-parisc To: Mikulas Patocka , Helge Deller Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org On 2016-04-05 4:18 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Helge Deller wrote: > >> On 05.04.2016 20:54, Mikulas Patocka wrote: >>> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Simone Mannori wrote: >>>>> I think Debian 5 will not even install on the C8000.. >>>> Correct: the boot DVD hang after a while. >>> I installed Debian 5 on the C8000 (using tftp netboot, not DVD) some times >>> ago. >>> >>> It required PCI serial card (because the Debian 5 kernel doesn't recognize >>> the built-in serial ports) and PCI network card (the Debian 5 kernel can't >>> handle the built-in E1000 network card due to non-standard checksum in the >>> EEPROM). >> ... and the debian 5 kernel was most likely *very* unstable on that machine ? :-) >> >> Helge > Yes, it was very unstable. It took long time for the parisc port to > stabilize. I would say it took a change in the way the port is maintained. Helge and I communicate closely. I look at the buildd logs on a regular basis and try to push fixes for gcc problems aggressively. This causes some instability but I don't see any other choice. We have also pushed stuff to glibc. More needs to be done there but the Debian patch set is reduced. > > Recently, I've got some gcc crashes when running kernel compilation in > parallel with the LVM2 testsuite, so there may still be some stability > bugs. > The LVM2 builds on Debian have been generally successful: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=lvm2&arch=hppa However, it looks as if testsuite isn't being run. If you find something that is reproducible, please send along. Dave -- John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net