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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 07:19:18 -0400
From: "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>
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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:12:29AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29 2002, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
> > > Anyway, people who are having VM trouble with the current 2.5.x series, 
> > > please _complain_, and tell what your workload is. Don't sit silent and 
> > > make us think we're good to go.. And if Ingo is right, I'll do the 3.0.x 
> > > thing.
> > 
> > I think the broken IDE in 2.5.x has meant that it got seriously less
> > testing overall than previous development trees :-(.  Maybe after
> > halloween when it stabilises a bit more we'll get more reports in.
> 
> 2.5 is definitely desktop stable, so please test it if you can. Until
> recently there was a personal show stopper for me, the tasklist
> deadline. Now 2.5 is happily running on my desktop as well.
> 
> 2.5 IDE stability should be just as good as 2.4-ac.
> 
Hmm - our definitions must be different.

ASUS P4S533 (SiS645DX chipset)
P4 2Ghz
1G PC2700 RAM

Disable SMP, enable APIC & IO APIC
Get "WARNING - Unexpected IO APIC found"
system freezes

Disable IO APIC, enable ACPI
system detects ACPI, builds table, freezes.

Disable ACPI, enable ide-scsi in the kernel
kernel panic analyzing hdc

None of these have been reported because I haven't had time to do all the
work involved in making a report that anyone on the team will read.

-- 
Murray J. Root
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