Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:34:34 -0500 | From | Jack Steiner <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64 |
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:16:17AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:59:14AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:47:03AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote: > > > > >So does reverting this patch solve the problem? > > > > > > > > I reversing > > > > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=064b53dbcc977dbf2753a67c2b8fc1c061d74f21, > > > > which appears to be the latest version of this patch. There was a > > > > patch reject in sparc64, but the common code was reverted. IA64 (SGI > > > > Altix) with that patch reverted now boots 2.6.14-rc1. > > > > > > Anyone know anything more about this problem? I'm not seeing it > > > on any of my systems ... so perhaps it only affects cards with a > > > PCI bridge on them, or cards that haven't already been initialized > > > by EFI. > > > > I posted a patch on Wednesday: > > > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2193.html > > > > The original reporter (Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>) confirmed this > > patch to fix the problem. > > Yes, and a number of people objected to that patch. Care to respond to > them?
We are working on an SN-only workaround. No guarantee, but the person working on it is optimistic that we can fix the problem in SN code w/o making any generic changes. I should know more on Monday.
Long term, we are making SN ACPI compliant - or at leeast a lot closer.
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Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) 651-683-5302 Principal Engineer SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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