From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20010820025147.7057.qmail@kunk.jriver.com> Subject: Re: Occasional crash reports In-Reply-To: <20010818111705.1E2B2DB9D0@atlas.valhalla.net> "from Iain Sandoe at Aug 18, 2001 12:16:58 pm" To: Iain Sandoe Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:51:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert E Brose II Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: User Iain Sandoe says: > > > > Mace is still unreliable in 2.4. It's always been just plain unreliable > > for me on 7200, 7500 and 7600's. > > - are these clones or Apple originals? > we found other dbdma problems on clone 7x00 machines for PowerComputing (in > the sound side) ... All are Apple originals. > might be worth checking that there are no cases of "DEAD" status coming up > on the Mace driver... I am setting up a test machine as I write this. I'm setting up YDL 2.0 on a 7200 using the internal mace. I'll get it to fail (not hard) and put some printk's in the "DEAD" tests in mace.c > as I say, booting with the BootX *init* (rather than the application) bmac, > at least, seems reliable on g3/beige (don't use Mace much). Will check that as well and let you know. > ciao, > Iain. > Bob -- Robert E. Brose II N0QBJ http://www.jriver.com/~bob/ bob@kunk.jriver.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/