From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20030105150405.007dead0@boo.net> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:04:05 -0500 From: Jason Papadopoulos Subject: Re: [PATCH] rewritten page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel In-Reply-To: <20030105193411.GJ9704@holomorphy.com> References: <200301051603.LAA18650@boo-mda02.boo.net> <200301051603.LAA18650@boo-mda02.boo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: At 11:34 AM 1/5/03 -0800, you wrote: >At some point in the past, jasonp wrote: >>> Any chance for a 2.5.x-mm port? This is a bit feature-ish for 2.4.x. > >On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:03:33PM +0000, jasonp@boo.net wrote: >> I know. The problem is that 2.5.53 cannot finish booting on the Alpha I have >> here (IDE issues). While I can port the patch over, I'm not comfortable being >> unable to test it at all. > >What kind of Alpha? Got an oops/backtrace? > >I probably can't reproduce it directly since my Alpha's diskless. 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. Thanks, jasonp -- 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/