Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755391AbZFDQAW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:00:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755913AbZFDQAD (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:00:03 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:53800 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757368AbZFDQAB (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:00:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SMdd7cBk8bvCzVRbN3HtCiPQmawPqY9SM4ih8uY3VSfuYoGwor50wLdlwZj0/4o3t3 SSWmPv1s0qWX2UxO/LyvKHCdDpitir85hVwAexuN6VadsXvOfCZkayapGnHh96eX7gk+ O+Q7iQJ3CiH/hfIWDviyIjJRntGo+Wx3S2YH4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <200906040856.10512.lkml@morethan.org> <200906040958.46018.lkml@morethan.org> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:00:01 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b342a5a40c78e0b5 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support] From: Duane Griffin To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Michael S. Zick" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Harald Welte Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 26 2009/6/4 Linus Torvalds : > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote: >> Well, that one isn't anything to brag about" > > So what's the problem on that machine? Is the VIA C7-M (or some random > device in it) just buggy and it eventually hangs, or what? Has _any_ > kernel ever worked on that machine for longer than an hour or two? There have been reports of hangs on various VIA C7 machines going back a year now. The version of the kernel doesn't seem to matter, but the version of glibc does. Unfortunately there hasn't been much progress in getting to the bottom of it. See here (and other linked reports): http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228263 Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan -- 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/