Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754420AbZFDQNa (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:13:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752224AbZFDQNX (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:13:23 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49286 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751885AbZFDQNW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:13:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:13:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Duane Griffin cc: "Michael S. Zick" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Harald Welte Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200906040856.10512.lkml@morethan.org> <200906040958.46018.lkml@morethan.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 29 On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Duane Griffin wrote: > > 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 Hmm. That looks like a CPU problem, but hey, it might be that the glibc version thing is just coincidence, and just changes timings or whatever, and the problem is in the chipsets. So at least from that particular report it smells very much non-kernel-related. That said, even if it isn't kernel-related, it might be fixable with some kernel patch that changes the setup of the CPU/chipset. But we'd need VIA to help with anythign like that. Linus -- 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/