From: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:15:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303191514.GA6998@middle.of.nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040302144757.60a0630c.akpm@osdl.org>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:47:57PM -0800
> Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > After upgrading my memory from 1 Gb to 2.5 Gb my 2.6.3-mm4 kernel
> > wouldn't boot anymore.
> >
> > It hang when detecting the scsi-chip.
> > I had in my .config:
> >
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
> >
> > the default value.
> >
> > The scsi bus kept resetting before detecting any devices. Interestingly,
> > 2.6.3-mm1 did boot with that .config setting. Once I recompiled
> > 2.6.3-mm4 with
> >
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=0
> >
> > it booted (and worked) fine.
> >
> > So, something regressed in 2.6.3-mm4 versus 2.6.3-mm1, so the default
> > setting didn't work correctly anymore.
>
> I don't know what caused this - there are a few patches in there which
> touch the DMA and BIO highmem areas. Plus always the latest scsi
> development tree.
>
> > If there is anything I can test, please let me know.
>
> Could you test Linus's current tree? The first link at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/.
>
> If this bug hasn't hit Linus's tree yet, it will soon do so...
>
It probably will, since it's not in Linus's tree as of
cset-20040303_0509.txt
ie 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 + cset-20040303_0509 does boot with
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1, and 2.6.3-mm4 doesn't.
Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 18:55 2.6.3-mm4 / 2.5 Gb memory / sym53c8xx_2 won't boot Jurriaan
2004-03-02 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 19:15 ` Jurriaan [this message]
2004-03-03 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 8:10 ` Jurriaan
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