Timecounters and 5.2

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Tue Jan 27 10:42:52 PST 2004


On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Ken Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:03:10AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
>
> > Taking a look at my system, this is where the ATA and firewire probe
> > happens. I've had hangs here if interrupts are broken. Its likely that
> > ACPI on your system has bogus routing information and this causes ATA to
> > hang.
>
> In case it helps at all, pluto2 (ia64 reference machine on the cluster)
> might be doing the same thing.  For a kernel built Jan 22nd it
> wedges right after the timecounter messages.  For a kernel built
> Jan 20th it seems to boot fine.  The messages immediately after the
> timecounter messages for a successful boot are the ATA-attached DVD
> drive.

Hm. Soren committed some changes to the driver on the 19th (UTC) which
fixed some timeout issues. What rev of ata-all.c does the two kernels
have?  Actually just get all the revs for all the ata files for doc
purposes. :)

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