2005-05-27 19:53:05

by Peter J. Stieber

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Subject: Re: Tyan Opteron boards and problems with parallel ports (badpmd)

CW = Christopher Warner
CW>>> The tyan boards I have in here right now appear to
CW>>> work properly except for the pmd issue, i've noticed
CW>>> nothing wrong with them besides that.

PS = Peter J. Stieber
PS>> Same here.

CW>>> What we need is to try and single out the variables that
CW>>> are causing the badpmd's. Also the more people who
CW>>> report badpmd's with Andi Kleen's intial patch the better.
CW>>> Especially on different archs; would also be good. So
CW>>> far from lkml i'm only seeing Tyan S28* boards as of
CW>>> recent.

PS>> Does the Dave Jones provided Fedora Core 3 kernel I'm running
PS>> (2.6.11-1.29_FC3smp) have Andi's patch?
PS>>
PS>> I guess that question was fo Dave ;-)

DJ = Dave Jones
DJ> not the latest iteration no.

I'd be willing to try it if you could provide it Dave.
Pete