system lockup - ata spurious interrupts - somehow updated

[Søren Schmidt]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>>That said, the ICH5 support is written "blindfolded" as I do not have 
>>any such HW here in the lab. So if there is a problem with ATA on those, 
>>someone with the HW and enough kernel clue should look into it (or 
>>someone could land the needed HW in my lab, which could also bring 
>>support for the SW RAID on intel's)...
> 
> I have the hardware and I'm willing to fix this problem. What kernel
> clue are we talking about?

Enough to know your way around the kernel, instrument code to see what 
is going on and do new code bits to fix potential problems etc etc, that 
kind of thing. In some cases having test HW around to see if there are 
physical interrupts delivered, if devices are really selected on the HW 
level etc, can be very handy as well..

Most importantly is to have lots of time and persistence though...

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-Søren