From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:37:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.4.7) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org David Mosberger writes: |> The latest IA-64 patch is available at: |>=20 |> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/ |>=20 |> in file linux-2.4.7-ia64-010723.diff*. |>=20 |> There are no major new features in this patch but mostly bug fixes and |> syncing up with 2.4.7. Note that 2.4.7 introduces a somewhat |> non-trivial change in how softirqs are handled: they are now checked |> only as a result of a hard irq and not every time the kernel returns |> to user mode. While I'm not particularly happy to see such changes |> this late in the 2.4.x series, I do believe it is safe and I have been |> running a fairly busy machine since Saturday without any problems. As |> usual your mileage may vary, so test well before you ship with this |> kernel. Did you try out the UP kernel? It hangs in ksoftirqd. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab "And now for something SuSE Labs completely different." Andreas.Schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Schanz=E4ckerstr. 10, D-90443 N=FCrnberg Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5