Re: git pull on ia64 linux tree

Robin Holt
2005-08-31T11:28:03Z

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:56:25PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> On 8/30/05, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
> > Tony, can you give some indication on your plans for my MCA/INIT
> > rewrite? Will you send it to Linus in the next couple of weeks or will
> > it have to wait for 2.6.15 to open?
>
> Keith,
>
> It is a big enough piece that I don't expect to get to dig through it and test
> before Linus hits us with 2.6.14-rc1 and issues the "slow-down" command.
> So, realistically this looks to be 2.6.15 material (unless there are others
> on the list that would like to see this in earlier and provide comments and
> test run results ... hint hint).

I would really like this in for the next distributor pull of the kernel
so it gets more exposure there. I have used the stuff Keith posted on
8/17 and did not see anything handled incorrectly. I will retest with
the latest today. The machine even handled simulataneous failures the
three times I three them at it. I only tried one nmi and did not attempt
to resume from it, but at least the register information made sense.
Compared to what I have seen in the past from NMIs, this was a vast
improvement.

What testing would you like to see? I do not understand the issues enough
to comment on the patches, but could possibly coax a couple other people
who are into spending a half-day on it.

Thanks, Robin