From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:45:51 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] rewritten page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel Message-ID: <20030105204551.GK9704@holomorphy.com> References: <200301051603.LAA18650@boo-mda02.boo.net> <200301051603.LAA18650@boo-mda02.boo.net> <3.0.6.32.20030105150405.007dead0@boo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20030105150405.007dead0@boo.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jason Papadopoulos Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: At 11:34 AM 1/5/03 -0800, you wrote: >> What kind of Alpha? Got an oops/backtrace? >> I probably can't reproduce it directly since my Alpha's diskless. On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Jason Papadopoulos wrote: > The machine in question is a DS10 Alphaserver (DP264 type chipset) using an > ALI M5229 rev c1 IDE controller (uses the ALI 15x3 driver). The stock 2.5.53 > kernel panics at boot time because it can't find the root partition; when I > first reported the problem, one of the maintainers passed on a patch that > resolved some 2.5 IDE issues. With the patch in place, the boot process gets > farther along but occaisionally there will be a printout that hda lost an > interrupt. I don't know how far it really gets, because I gave up after other > subsystems started reporting errors. > I haven't tried 2.5.54, either. I will shortly. > Is 2.4 really in bug-fix mode now? 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 were huge patches. Sounds like a job for the IDE crew, who appear to know there are pending ali + Alpha issues. Bill -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/