Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64

John W. Linville
2005-09-17T15:59:32Z

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:47:03AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> > >So does reverting this patch solve the problem?
> >
> > I reversing
> > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=064b53dbcc977dbf2753a67c2b8fc1c061d74f21,
> > which appears to be the latest version of this patch. There was a
> > patch reject in sparc64, but the common code was reverted. IA64 (SGI
> > Altix) with that patch reverted now boots 2.6.14-rc1.
>
> Anyone know anything more about this problem? I'm not seeing it
> on any of my systems ... so perhaps it only affects cards with a
> PCI bridge on them, or cards that haven't already been initialized
> by EFI.

I posted a patch on Wednesday:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2193.html

The original reporter (Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>) confirmed this
patch to fix the problem.

Thanks,

John
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