Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261667AbVE0Elv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 00:41:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261724AbVE0Elv (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 00:41:51 -0400 Received: from twin.uoregon.edu ([128.223.214.27]:47553 "EHLO twin.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261667AbVE0Elq (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2005 00:41:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:41:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Christopher Warner cc: "Peter J. Stieber" , chris@servertogo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Tyan Opteron boards and problems with parallel ports (badpmd) In-Reply-To: <1117156446.8874.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <3174569B9743D511922F00A0C943142309F815A6@TYANWEB> <037801c5616a$b1be6600$1600a8c0@toyon.corp> <4295E9F1.6080304@tmr.com> <022e01c56233$241e5930$1600a8c0@toyon.corp> <1117156446.8874.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3907 Lines: 89 On Thu, 26 May 2005, Christopher Warner wrote: > Just read the other existing thread linked. Is everyone running the same > model opteron on these Tyan boards (246)? To update even further. > Besides the parallel port problem I've sent back about 5 of these tyan > motherboards. A couple of then simply didn't have the gigabit network > adapters available via bios. In some cases linux loaded the drivers for > the adapters regardless of their setting in BIOS. In other cases they > simply were not available. I have 4 tyan s2882's. 2 with 244's and 2GB of ram and 2 with 246 and 4GB of ram. I don't appear to have bad parallel ports or bad ethernet interfaces. They're running fedora core 3's 2.6.11 x86_64 kernel (2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp)... I cna't tell you what bios version off the top of my head but i can reboot one tomorrow if that helps. > Also, are the processes you run swapping out/in memory repeatedly? Or > using a large amount of threading? Thread pools? I'm trying to get rid > of this problem myself. I've seen it extensively in 2.6.11.5 and not as > much in 2.6.11.8 but I haven't tested lately past .8 > > -Christopher Warner > > > On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:40 -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: >> YhLu>>> Don't always blame BIOS, if you like you could >> YhLu>>> use LinuxBIOS instead... >> >> PJS>> Just curious, but why isn't this project (LinuxBIOS) >> PJS>> mentioned on the Tyan web site, or is it and I >> PJS>> just missed it? >> PJS>> >> PJS>> You do work for Tyan, right? >> >> BD = Bill Davidsen >> BD> What has that to do with anything? I doubt that suggestions >> BD> about boot options are on the website or come from the >> BD> Tyan website, either. >> BD> >> BD> Note: I'm not endorsing LinuxBIOS for Opteron, I haven't >> BD> personally tried it. But the value of the suggestion depends >> BD> on how it works, not who makes it. There appear to be a >> BD> lot of reports of problems with Opteron lately, if the BIOS >> BD> isn't buggy then the documentation may have lost in >> BD> translation. >> >> I have been having the "memory.c bad pmds" with a Tyan S2885 >> motherboard. >> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-May/msg01690.html >> http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2005-Week-19/1397.html >> >> When Yhlu brought up the topic of LinuxBIOS, I thought he might be >> suggesting that this would prove there are no problems with the BIOS >> (i.e. the same problems would occur with LinuxBIOS as with the >> motherboards built-in BIOS). Looking at the LinuxBIOS web site, I got >> the impression (I may be wrong) that this was a Tyan supported effort. >> If that was the case I was wondering why Tyan didn't mention LinuxBIOS >> on their web site. It would make me more comfortable if this were a Tyan >> supported effort. That's why I asked the question. >> >> I'm just trying anything I can to get rid of the bad pmd messages. >> >> Pete >> >> >> - >> 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/ > > - > 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/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - 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/