From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Val Henson Cc: Subject: Re: Highmem on PPC? Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:59:14 +0100 Message-Id: <20020207215914.30288@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020207145620.E19569@boardwalk> References: <20020207145620.E19569@boardwalk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/