From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:46:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:46:05 -0400 Received: from cx570538-a.elcjn1.sdca.home.com ([24.5.14.144]:13440 "EHLO keroon.dmz.dreampark.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:45:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3B77302C.96C79272@randomlogic.com> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:41:00 -0700 From: "Paul G. Allen" Organization: Akamai Technologies, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-ac10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: S2464 (K7 Thunder) hangs -- some lessons learned In-Reply-To: <20010812212430.A9300@thyrsus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost.localdomain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Small note. The K7 Thunder is S2462, unless there is another, possibly newer, version released?) "Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > [SNIP] > > OK, so the lessons here are: > > 1. The S2464 needs to be configured with "Use PCI Interrupt Entries In MP > Table" for sanity to prevail, and I have been running my K7 in this mode since purchase. Could this be why I see no SB Live!/ EMU10K problems (though I am running 2.4.7 kernels now)? > > 2. When you see a box hang that's clearly related to a daughtercard, *run* > (do not walk) to your local /proc directory, cat /proc/pci and check out > the IRQ assignments. Problem is, when it does hang, I can't get there as the system is completely locked, including ssh and telnet. PGA -- Paul G. Allen UNIX Admin II/Network Security Akamai Technologies, Inc. www.akamai.com