Recent kernel hangs on HP DL145 servers

[John-Mark Gurney]

Robert Watson wrote this message on Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 13:53 +0000:
> I updated two boxes to recent kernels from a kernel around October 7 or so, 
> and they now both hang on boot if I have a Neterion 10gbps ethernet card in 
> the PCIe slot. Since I don't have the driver loaded at boot, it seems more 
> likely it's a kernel bug.  Both identical machines now have the following 
> vpd warning during boot, which wasn't present previously, but may be 
> unrelated:

It's very likely you are plagued w/ non-standard PCI cards...

I assume you mean Nov 7th?  If so, there was fix committed for more
normal bad VPD data (v1.321 of sys/dev/pci/pci.c)...

There is still an outstanding bug of a device that doesn't even properly
handle VPD accesses and it hang waiting for a bit to clear...  I need
to inspect the patch closer before committing..

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