Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261497AbUKFXGM (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:06:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261499AbUKFXGM (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:06:12 -0500 Received: from dragon.woods.net ([208.186.177.35]:17319 "EHLO a.smtp.woods.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261497AbUKFXGD (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:06:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:06:03 -0700 (MST) From: "Christopher E. Brown" To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Daniel Egger , Linux Mailing List Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 Dual Opteron glitches In-Reply-To: <200411022253.51040.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1701 Lines: 43 On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 02 of November 2004 14:59, Daniel Egger wrote: > > Hija, > > > > I've a few glitches with my brandnew dual Opteron System which I'd > > like to share with you. First of all, all those problems seem to > > be there with 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.9 but since this seemed to be the > > case I moved on with 2.6.9 and hadn't investigated any further > > on 2.6.8.1 so some of the issues might only apply to 2.6.9. > > I'm using 2.6.10-rc1-mm2 currently, on a dual Opteron w/ Tyan Thunder K8W. > > > 1) 32 bit kernel HPET calibration hang: If the kernel is compiled > > with HPET support, the kernel will hang on boot while > > calibrating the timer. The problem goes away if HPET support is > > not compiled in. I've no idea what information to provide to help > > debug this. > > I can't confirm this. I've just set CONFIG_HPET and friends (except for > CONFIG_HPET_RTC_IRQ) and nothing wrong happens. Running 2.6.9 32bit here on a Tyan Thunder K8W with BIOS 2.02. Is a new system, started with BIOS 1.02, built the kernel with CONFIG_HPET and CONFIG_HPET_RTC_IRQ enabled. No issues, but no messages about HPET during boot. Updated to current BIOS (that among other things adds an enable/disable HPET option) and I have the same issues, system hang on HPET calabration, with an opps several minutes later. Disable the HPET in BIOS and the system boots just fine (but no HPET). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/