From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 23:47:04 -0700 From: Jamie Heilman To: linuxppc-dev list Subject: Re: BriQ & Linux 2.6 Message-ID: <20040524064703.GI1946@audible.transient.net> References: <20040521074018.GD8520@audible.transient.net> <1085181034.6755.7.camel@gaston> <20040521233523.GJ8520@audible.transient.net> <1085199239.9230.4.camel@gaston> <20040522064520.GM8520@audible.transient.net> <1085209944.9234.7.camel@gaston> <20040522193639.GO8520@audible.transient.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20040522193639.GO8520@audible.transient.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Well played around with the pcnet32 driver, reverting some of the changes since 1.27a, and it didn't help at all, so I gave up on that problem and focused on the spontaneous rebooting. SMART tests on the disk revealed nothing, acording to the selftests everything is fine. On a whim I removed the gargoyle expansion board from the briq, and lo and behold - stability improved dramatically. Its hard to know why it helped. But more disturbing is that it didn't solve the issue by a long shot. So I ran bonnie++ for a few itterations ... and it worked flawlessly (in 2.6.6-bk8). Then I ran: while :; do tar jxf linux-2.6.6-bk8.tar.bz2; echo -n .; done The second time through the machine spontaneously rebooted. :-( So I booted up 2.4.24-2004021601briq from TI's site, reran the above test, and it got through about 4 itterations before it locked up hard, and VFD went dark (didn't reboot). So then I stepped back to 2.4.23-2004012801briq also from TI... ran the test again, got maybe 1 itteration further and locked up again. So, swearing up a storm, I booted up 2.2.19 and ran the test again, this got through quite a few itterations (like around 11 or 12) but in the end the machine still locked up and the VFD went dark. Frustrating; I'm starting to wonder if the software is the real issue though. -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "I was in love once -- a Sinclair ZX-81. People said, "No, Holly, she's not for you." She was cheap, she was stupid and she wouldn't load -- well, not for me, anyway." -Holly ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/