From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Erdfelt Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:22:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: IA-64 XFree86 (was: XFree 4.0.1 module loading) Message-Id: 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 On Mon, Aug 21, 2000, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, David Mosberger wrote: > > > >>>>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:34:11 -0700 (PDT), Mark Vojkovich said: > > > > Mark> 1) Firmware issues that prevent the X-server from working > > Mark> reliably with SMP (even lspci locks up in the SAL code). > > > > As Bill already pointed out, we have seen any problems since we fixed > > /proc/bus/pci/devices not to overwrite kernel memory. We have a > > dual-CPU BigSur here which runs X fine and lspci doesn't crash the > > machine. The quick and dirty hack is to use 16KB page size. > > OK, that's good news. I'll get somebody to update the kernel > on my dual-CPU BigSur and give it a try. Nope, this was not the problem. We have the same problem going directly to the hardware as well, as XFree and scanpci (XFree tool) does. But, it couldn't hurt to try the patch. I'll try upgrading him to ver 59 of the workstations firmware to see if it helps. JE