From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chen, Kenneth W" Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 21:28:12 +0000 Subject: RE: [ia64 R&D] CONFIG_IA64_MCA Message-Id: <200405072128.i47LSCF00505@unix-os.sc.intel.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>> Jesse Barnes wrote on Friday, May 07, 2004 12:57 PM > > On Tuesday, May 4, 2004 7:51 pm, CURRY,JOHN W (HP-Cupertino,ex1) wrote: > > Well, once it's working I think this will be okay for our team. > > Any chance you could test the patch for me? Anyone else have hw they > could try it on? Is there another patch or this is the latest one? http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0405/9514.html If that's the latest one, then it won't boot on any machine with nomca parameter because once match found, it stuck in the for loop and memcmp endlessly, cp never gets incremented :-( How about this one: diff -Nur linux-2.6.6-rc3/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c linux-2.6.6-rc3.ken/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c --- linux-2.6.6-rc3/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c 2004-04-27 18:35:09.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.6-rc3.ken/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c 2004-05-07 14:22:18.000000000 -0700 @@ -360,8 +360,9 @@ # endif #endif - /* enable IA-64 Machine Check Abort Handling */ - ia64_mca_init(); + /* enable IA-64 Machine Check Abort Handling unless disabled */ + if (!strstr(saved_command_line, "nomca ")) + ia64_mca_init(); platform_setup(cmdline_p); paging_init();