From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:52:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:52:40 -0400 Received: from asooo.flowerfire.com ([63.104.96.247]:34530 "EHLO asooo.flowerfire.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:52:30 -0400 Message-Id: <200105032252.RAA12232@asooo.flowerfire.com> Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:52:23 -0700 From: Ken Brownfield Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: 2.4.4 Kernel - ASUS CUV4X-DLS Question Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.388) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v388) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have some info at "http://web.irridia.com/linux/" from an LPr having issues, including the dmidecode output and a mostly complete boot-time dmesg dump from an LPr and LP1000r. The LPr was running 2.4.2-pre4 and the LP1000r is running 2.4.5-pre1, both without "noapic". Please let me know if you need more info. BTW, I have an isolated bank of redundant machines, one of which I can load down with heavy live load so I can test patches pretty easily. I'll do anything, including setting fire to a machine, if it'll help. :-) -- Ken. On Thursday, May 3, 2001, at 03:23 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> But the distributions use _the_ kernel. Even if -ac is fixed, it's not >> really something I would be willing to put in production. Until I >> found > > Actually by unit count Linus is currently losing to me on 2.4 shipping. > Thats one reason I really want to get the stuff I have back into the > main > tree. > >> the noapic work-around, we were basically going to have to move off of >> Linux. I could very well be an isolated case, but the APIC issues I'm >> seeing scare me, and not just for my sake. > > Can you give me the detailed boot up messages from one of your HP boxes > and > some more info. Also can you run dmidecode.c from > ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan > > on them and send me the DMI strings. You will need to run it as root but > it can be run on a live system (at least I dont know of any bugs in it > and > it only reads from raw BIOS memory not writes). > > Alan