Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support]

Duane Griffin
2009-06-04T16:00:22Z

2009/6/4 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
>> Well, that one isn't anything to brag about"
>
> So what's the problem on that machine? Is the VIA C7-M (or some random
> device in it) just buggy and it eventually hangs, or what? Has _any_
> kernel ever worked on that machine for longer than an hour or two?

There have been reports of hangs on various VIA C7 machines going back
a year now. The version of the kernel doesn't seem to matter, but the
version of glibc does. Unfortunately there hasn't been much progress
in getting to the bottom of it.

See here (and other linked reports):
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228263

Cheers,
Duane.

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