Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [2008-01-17 02:35:14]:

> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/
> 
> - selinux is busted on one of my two selinux-enabled test machines.
> 
> - suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk are totally hosed on one of my test
>   machines.  I guess I get to bisect this.
> 
> - git-nfsd is dropped due to conflicts with git-nfs
> 
> - git-newsetup is dropped due to conflicts with git-x86 (I think)
> 
> - git-perfmon is dropped due to conflicts with git-x86 (I think)
> 
> - git-kgdb is dropped due to conflicts with git-damn-near-everything
> 
> - git-block is dropped due to conflicts with the IDE tree
> 
> - kvm probably doesn't work properly because I couldn't be bothered fixing
>   the conflicts between git-kvm and the driver tree
> 
> - the volume of rejects and build errors which are caused by subsystem
>   maintainers fiddling with other people's stuff is quite out of control. 
>   Something needs to happen here.

Hi, Andrew,

May be it was one of the conflicts, but my system fails to get
ethernet working with this version. I see

e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3. 5.23-k4-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
modprobe:2584 conflicting cache attribute 50000000-50001000
uncached<->default
e100: 0000:04:08.0: e100_probe: Cannot map device registers, aborting.
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:08.0 disabled
e100: probe of 0000:04:08.0 failed with error -12

Other interesting boot information

Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000008f000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000003e5d1000 - 000000003e6e5000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000003f574000 - 000000003f57c000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000003f62d000 - 000000003f631000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000003f6a7000 - 000000003f6e9000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000003f6ed000 - 000000003f6ff000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bff80000)

 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
   IO window: disabled.
   MEM window:
0x50300000-0x503fffff
   PREFETCH window: disabled.
 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
   IO window: disabled.
   MEM window:
0x50400000-0x504fffff
   PREFETCH window: disabled.
 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.3
   IO window: disabled.
   MEM window:
0x50500000-0x505fffff
   PREFETCH window: disabled.
 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
   IO window: 1000-1fff
   MEM window:
0x50000000-0x500fffff
   PREFETCH window: disabled.

I am yet to get down to the root cause, thought I'd report it first to
the x86 and ACPI list to see if someone has seen the problem before.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL