From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964906AbWFAKKF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 06:10:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964925AbWFAKKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 06:10:04 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.89]:37892 "EHLO anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964906AbWFAKKD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 06:10:03 -0400 Message-ID: <447EBCF9.8090208@onelan.co.uk> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:10:01 +0100 From: Barry Scott User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: broadcom 5752 in HP dc7600U works on 2.6.13 but does not working on 2.6.16 References: <4469E709.7080501@onelan.co.uk> <20060522035943.7829ee32.akpm@osdl.org> <447EB970.8030005@onelan.co.uk> <20060601030615.41b70b1f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060601030615.41b70b1f.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:54:56 +0100 > Barry Scott wrote: > > ... >> I'm willing to help get this fixed. I'm happy working inside kernels and >> drivers >> but will need some guidance to know where to focus to track this down. >> > > ACPI, most likely. > > >> The obvious problem is solve is why are no interrupts being received by >> the tg3.c code. >> >> Which kernel should I use to debug this? 2.6.17 latest RC? >> Which debug options do you suggest I turn on to get closer to the problem? >> What information should I collect? >> > > A git-bisect search would be a suitable way of finding out where it broke. > > But then, we don't know if this machine has _ever_ worked with IO-APIC's > enabled, do we? > From the point of view of APIC its not a regression. Isn't the way forward to find out why it does not work now as there is no old code that did work to compare to? Barry