From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuval Hager Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 02:28:10 +0300 Subject: System freezes with 2.6.33 In-Reply-To: <4BD0858D.7080903@lwfinger.net> References: <20100418071932.GB15229@happy.exit> <20100422161231.GA1941@happy.exit> <4BD0858D.7080903@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <201005020228.11985.yhager@yhager.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On Thursday 22 April 2010 20:21:17 Larry Finger wrote: > On 04/22/2010 11:12 AM, yhager at yhager.com wrote: > > I have tested the same kernel, with CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO=y. The > > results are mostly the same. Full system freeze. Turning the radio off > > avoids the freeze. Turning the radio on would not immediately freeze - > > only when I tried to connect to a wireless network it did. > > I also enabled CONFIG_B43_DEBUG, but no messages on the console that > > would testify a problem. > > Is it possible for you to test with another mac80211-based wireless > device? I cannot think of any possibility for the system to lock up when > b43 is using PIO. > > When the freeze occurs, how long do you leave it? There are some CPU > lockups that take as many as 2 minutes to be recognized by the kernel. > > In Archlinux, how difficult is it to incorporate source from an external > tree and build the kernel? > > Larry I cannot recreate it with latest 2.6.33.3-1. --yuval