From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Jeremy Drake Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] SMP (in)stability In-Reply-To: Message from Jeremy Drake of "Tue, 09 Jul 2002 19:40:52 PDT." References: Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 23:36:47 -0600 From: Grant Grundler Message-Id: <20020710053647.D282F4853@dsl2.external.hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Jeremy Drake wrote: > After having read on this list that some SMP-related problems were fixed, > I decided to try out the latest kernel as SMP on my J5k. I tried my old > test, apt-get update, on it. It downloaded the package lists fine, but > stopped after printing "Reading Package Lists... 0%". It Works For Me. (tm) Did you build this kernel yourself or grab a debian kernel package? Can you provide "uname -a" output of the SMP kernel you tested? FYI, I've uploaded my a500 build (should work on j5k as well if it's using serial console) to: ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/kernels/a500/2.4.18-pa52.tgz The -pa52 kernel built 100+ kernels/modules successively until I stopped it on the a500-44. The same kernel on a500-6X (PA8700) crashes after 12 or so hours of building gcc bits. I've also seen eth0 (tulip driver) spontaneously go to an unconfigured state without saying anything on the console. It's possible a cron job or something else ifdown'd it but I don't know why. BTW, before I go to bed tonight, I expect the latest kernel to be -pa54. I'll be adding a one-liner sym53c8xx_2 driver patch to allow one to use the default CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1. One can use sym53c8xx_2 now with CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=0. Richard Hirst and Paul Bame (and a few others) have tested this out already. thanks, grant