From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 03:11:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Strange behaviour 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 Fri, 26 Apr 2002 04:40:23 +0200 (CEST), Steffen Persvold said: Steffen> Hi all, In our lab we have two B2-stepping BigSur (that is Steffen> the codename for the 2-cpu ones isn't it ?) machines Steffen> running slightly modified RH7.1 2.4.3 kernel with SMP Steffen> support (Yes I know, it's unsupported hardware, but they've Steffen> worked fine so far). When I do a rather long DMA transfer Steffen> with a Dolphin SCI card the machine prints this to the Steffen> serial console and stops : Steffen> gSelFlashStartAddr : ffe4ffb0 I believe this is a sign that a machine check (or "init") occurred. Given that B2 is pretty much ancient, I'm not sure there is much that can be done about it. Steffen> I'm curious to what this is, it seems to come from the Steffen> machine firmware or something ? Is this related to the beta Steffen> HW I have, Linux kernel version or is it something else ? It's coming from the firmware. Perhaps an older kernel with B2 support would work better, but then again, a lot of bugs got fixed in the kernel since then. --david