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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Val Henson <val@nmt.edu>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Highmem on PPC?
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:59:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020207215914.30288@smtp.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020207145620.E19569@boardwalk>


>The previous kernel was 2.4.12 based, with a hack from me to limit
>lowmem to 512MB.  And I was using SCSI, which has hardware bugs on my
>board, in addition to exercising bounce buffers much more strongly.
>In summary, I don't have the faintest idea what was causing the
>hangs.  I'll try booting my old 2.4.12 kernel NFS root and see if it's
>just as stable.

Could well be a generic kernel bug fixed in the meantime. 2.4.12 wasn't
bug free...

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-07 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-05  1:32 Highmem on PPC? Val Henson
2002-02-05 12:52 ` benh
2002-02-05 18:56   ` Val Henson
2002-02-05 19:33     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-05 19:42       ` Val Henson
2002-02-05 19:47         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-07 12:27       ` Christopher Murtagh
2002-02-07 21:43       ` Val Henson
2002-02-07 21:51         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-07 21:56           ` Val Henson
2002-02-07 21:59             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2002-02-07 21:53         ` Mark A. Greer
2002-02-07 21:58           ` Val Henson
2002-02-07 23:09             ` Mark A. Greer
2002-02-08  3:02         ` Tom Rini
2002-02-08  6:05         ` Christopher Murtagh
2002-02-08  6:25           ` Val Henson
2002-02-08 17:36       ` Val Henson

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