Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

Balbir Singh
2008-01-17T12:46:40Z

* 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