* IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
@ 2003-04-30 12:56 Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 14:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
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From: Wojciech Sobczak @ 2003-04-30 12:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Helo,
I'm trying to boot from linux kernel 2.4 tree
i've installed rh 7.1 dist, but system seems only 3 procesors, so i made
2.4.20 kernel with smp without NUMA support and i saw 4 processors. Next
2.4.20 with numa support, and system hangs on mounting root filesystem (no
scsi devices found, ide devices lost interruption, no keyboard found etc
etc)
Next 2.4.21-rc1-ac3 without NUMA, 3-processors available
with NUMA support and summit/exa support and clustered apic support kernel
boots, found scsi devices but hangs on it with lost interruption, also with
ide devices and so on
machine has 4 HT processors and 8GB of RAM
any ideas or help?
i don't wat to use 2.5.x kernel.....
regards
Sobczak Wojciech
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 12:56 IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3 Wojciech Sobczak
@ 2003-04-30 14:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-30 14:50 ` Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-30 17:45 ` john stultz
2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Martin J. Bligh @ 2003-04-30 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wojciech Sobczak, linux-kernel
> I'm trying to boot from linux kernel 2.4 tree
> i've installed rh 7.1 dist, but system seems only 3 procesors, so i made
> 2.4.20 kernel with smp without NUMA support and i saw 4 processors. Next
> 2.4.20 with numa support, and system hangs on mounting root filesystem (no
> scsi devices found, ide devices lost interruption, no keyboard found etc
> etc)
> Next 2.4.21-rc1-ac3 without NUMA, 3-processors available
> with NUMA support and summit/exa support and clustered apic support kernel
> boots, found scsi devices but hangs on it with lost interruption, also
> with ide devices and so on
> machine has 4 HT processors and 8GB of RAM
> any ideas or help?
>
> i don't wat to use 2.5.x kernel.....
SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does.
I'm not sure that any of the other 2.4 kernels work properly, though I
can't say I've tried the latest updates to other distros - they might work,
but I doubt 7.1 does - that's very old.
M.
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 14:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
@ 2003-04-30 14:50 ` Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 15:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-30 18:36 ` Jack F. Vogel
0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Wojciech Sobczak @ 2003-04-30 14:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Martin J. Bligh, linux-kernel
Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does.
but shoudn't it be platform independent? this is only kernel or meaby i need
new gcc... or meaby something else?....
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 14:50 ` Wojciech Sobczak
@ 2003-04-30 15:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-05 9:35 ` Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 18:36 ` Jack F. Vogel
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Martin J. Bligh @ 2003-04-30 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wojciech Sobczak, linux-kernel
>> SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does.
>
> but shoudn't it be platform independent? this is only kernel or meaby i
> need new gcc... or meaby something else?....
You need the kernel itself. It's the apic handling that's mostly different.
M.
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 15:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
@ 2003-05-05 9:35 ` Wojciech Sobczak
2003-05-06 0:41 ` Patrick Mansfield
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Wojciech Sobczak @ 2003-05-05 9:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Martin J. Bligh, linux-kernel
Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>>> SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does.
>>
>> but shoudn't it be platform independent? this is only kernel or
>> meaby i need new gcc... or meaby something else?....
>
> You need the kernel itself. It's the apic handling that's mostly
> different.
ok, thanks to all folks for help,
i'm now using 2.5.68 with linux-isp patch for qlogic support, system is
working nice, i see all 8 processors but cpuinfo shows only 199 bogomips,
but system performance is much much higher :), so meaby this is some kind of
not important bug.
as for now i will try to swich to 2.4.21-rc1 as Keith Mannthey gave me
working kernel config for 2.4
so now i've got one of them (servers) for kernel testing :)
from the battle field - i tryied to run on 2.5.68-mm3 tree but system hangs
on processors recognition.
as for qlogic support with linux-isp - is this driver with failover support?
regards
WS
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 14:50 ` Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 15:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
@ 2003-04-30 18:36 ` Jack F. Vogel
2003-05-03 16:02 ` Alan Cox
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Jack F. Vogel @ 2003-04-30 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wojciech Sobczak, Martin J. Bligh, linux-kernel
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 07:50 am, Wojciech Sobczak wrote:
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does.
>
> but shoudn't it be platform independent? this is only kernel or meaby i
> need new gcc... or meaby something else?....
I has nothing to do with gcc, Alan mentioned the magic (or cursed is
probably the better choice :) word, ACPI. The kernel in SLES 8 has
the x440 blacklisted so ACPI gets turned off automagically :)
As John mentioned, you can use a generic kernel provided its
recent enough AND you configure it properly for the box.
Cheers,
--
Jack F. Vogel IBM Linux Technology Center
jfv@us.ibm.com (work) || jfv@bluesong.net (home)
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 18:36 ` Jack F. Vogel
@ 2003-05-03 16:02 ` Alan Cox
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2003-05-03 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jfv; +Cc: Wojciech Sobczak, Martin J. Bligh, Linux Kernel Mailing List
On Mer, 2003-04-30 at 19:36, Jack F. Vogel wrote:
> I has nothing to do with gcc, Alan mentioned the magic (or cursed is
> probably the better choice :) word, ACPI. The kernel in SLES 8 has
> the x440 blacklisted so ACPI gets turned off automagically :)
Perhaps someone could submit the x440 blacklist entry to the base kernel
?
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 12:56 IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3 Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 14:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
@ 2003-04-30 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-30 17:45 ` john stultz
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2003-04-30 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wojciech Sobczak; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List
On Mer, 2003-04-30 at 13:56, Wojciech Sobczak wrote:
> with NUMA support and summit/exa support and clustered apic support kernel
> boots, found scsi devices but hangs on it with lost interruption, also with
> ide devices and so on
That sounds like a bug. Make sure you ACPI off for x440 if you are
testing and see if that helps
For vendor kernels you need Red Hat AS 2.1 or UnitedLinux 1.0. At least
I don't believe other vendors rolled kernels for x440 but I may be wrong
about that - certainly I can believe Debian or Gentoo might have.
x440 is sufficiently weird it needs its own extras and that makes it
hard to support for vendors.
Alan
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* Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
2003-04-30 12:56 IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3 Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 14:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-30 14:29 ` Alan Cox
@ 2003-04-30 17:45 ` john stultz
2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: john stultz @ 2003-04-30 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wojciech Sobczak, linux-kernel
Wojciech Sobczak wrote:
> Helo,
> I'm trying to boot from linux kernel 2.4 tree
[snip]
> i don't wat to use 2.5.x kernel.....
Support for the x440 landed ~2.4.21-pre4.
Try a more recent 2.4 kernel.
thanks
-john
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