> On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Andre M. Hedrick wrote:
>
> > Making this change (clobber) to "io_apic.c" makes it work correctly on
> > both of my SuperMicro P6DNF's.
>
> That's not a good patch, unfortunately - it's a dirty hack - I know, I
> used the exact same thing to verify the problem with Ingo last
> Thursday/Friday.
>
> Ingo Molnar posted a patch (which I helped him with) to the linux-kernel
> mailing list today, which fixes this problem in the correct way. I have
> the same motherboard as yours, so I can assure you it does work.
If we are discussing patch #2, then that still has problems.
My comments and dirty-nasty-clobber are based on patch #2.
Patch #1 never booted and barfed a huge OOPS in CPU1.
I don't have a copy of the output but the gagging happened near this point :
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
Let me make a full disk duplication with a FastTrak and hard crash and
wreck a copy of my system. It takes about 30-45 minutes to perform a RAID 1
hardware copy. No, hardware RAID 1 is still vapor-ware and the darn thing
will not boot on a SMP box.............
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The (NEW) Linux IDE guy
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/apcupsd/apcupsd-3.5.2.bin.tar.gz
You just need a bigger hammer, or learn how to swing the one you have better.
(C) me.....
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