Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934024AbXFEXiH (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:38:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764385AbXFEXh4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:37:56 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51661 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761085AbXFEXhz (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:37:55 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: walt Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc4 - sata_promise regression since -rc3 Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:37:39 -0700 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <200706052131.l55LVkYN000191@harpo.it.uu.se> <20070605215256.GT31565@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-211-243.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (X11/20070605) In-Reply-To: <20070605215256.GT31565@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2060 Lines: 39 Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:46PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: >> I can easily reproduce the problem in 2.6.22-rc4. There are no >> sata_promise changes between rc3 and rc4, but Tejun's libata >> polling SETXFER change was included in rc4. Reverting it makes >> sata_promise work again for me. > > Ugh. Reverting Tejun's patch also fixed my boot failure. 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X motherboard Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 16 I/O ports at d400 [size=64] I/O ports at d000 [size=16] I/O ports at b800 [size=128] Memory at f6800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X / A7V333 motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 255 [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at a400 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 The problem is that the controller can't be initialized properly, so the kernel keeps trying every 5 seconds. I gave up after about five failures. If the actual boot error messages would help I'll need to copy them by hand -- just say the word. - 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/