From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris McDermott Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 23:33:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] 2.4.17 stability on Lions 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, Jan 07, 2002 at 13:48 -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:20:15 -0800, Michael Madore said: > > Michael> Hi, I am seeing frequent lockups on my Lion box running > Michael> 2.4.17. I have firmware 76 installed. Does anyone have > Michael> this kernel running reliably on a lion box? If so, what > Michael> firmware version are you using. I was running 2.4.9 > Michael> previously, and that seemed to be pretty stable. > > I suspect you need fw 99 or newer. Trouble is: I don't think Intel > has released those newer versions on Quad yet. > > --david > And from what I understand, Intel does not plan to release on QuAD, any fw greater than 83B. FW revisions > 83B are not supported on Intel Lions, only OEM platforms. If you install an unsupported FW revision on a Lion, and you experience H/W problems, Intel will not support you. Speaking from personal experience here. Chris