Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@g.o>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Cc: Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@×××.com>, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-sparc] kernel issues post 2.6.7
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:27:45
Message-Id: 1101716862.16164.20.camel@cid.outersquare.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-sparc] Keyboard problems in 2.6.7-gentoo (was: ALSA support on sparc) by Jeremy Huddleston
1 Has anyone actually tried to find which patch breaks the keyboard? I'd
2 like to get this keyboard thing fixed in g-d-s, and since I'm not
3 affected, I can't test it...
4
5 Also, what are the specific problems preventing us from going up to
6 2.6.8 (and even 2.6.9) over 2.6.7? The main issues that I know of which
7 are not resolved in 2.6.7-gentoo-r17 are:
8
9 sparc32:
10 * SMP "broken" - for all 2.6.x
11 * Hypersparc DMA broken (patch on sparclinux) - for all 2.6.x
12 * hme doesn't work on Hypersparc - 2.6.9
13
14 sparc64:
15 * SMP with high load causes lockup - for all 2.6.x
16 * high load / disk access causes (rare) lockup on UP and SMP (reported
17 for a US II on 2.6.0-test10 and 2.6.9) - AFAIK, for all 2.6.x
18 * stop-a doesn't work over serial console (patch on sparclinux, but I
19 don't use serial console, so I haven't tested it) - for all 2.6.x
20 * keyboard sometimes doesn't work - 2.6.7-gentoo-rx
21
22 No issues that I see were added with 2.6.8, and additionally, I've been
23 running g-d-s-2.6.8-r10 (with the sparc patch set forward ported from
24 2.6.7-r17) without a hickup for the past day, and it's been constantly
25 running 'dbench 32' for the past 90 minutes... I have a UP UltraSparc
26 IIi... so would someone like to fill me in? Is it a sparc32 specific
27 reason that I missed?
28
29 --Jeremy
30
31 On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 16:11 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
32 > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 23:45 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
33 > > d-s-2.6.7 works. g-d-s-2.6.7 doesn't, hence why I moan about the gentoo
34 > > patchset so much :) Unfortunately I don't have access to the box that I
35 > > could trigger that on any more...
36 > >
37 >
38 > Ok, that's actually good news... So if someone can trigger the keyboard
39 > bug in the g-d-s-2.6.7-r15 kernel, then try adding this to the
40 > gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r15 ebuild and re-emerging/compiling the
41 > kernel... This will exclude all the non-sparc patches...
42 >
43 > UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE="1100_ip_tables.patch 1105_CAN-2004-0497.patch
44 > 1110_proc.patch 1115_net_eql.patch 1120-CAN-2004-0415.patch
45 > 1125-proc_pid_cmdline-race-fix.patch 1130_nfs-fix.patch
46 > 1135_netfilter-dos-fix.patch 1140_CAN-2004-0814.patch
47 > 1145_smbfs-dos.patch 1310_k8_cardbus_io.patch
48 > 1315_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch 1320_x86_64-2.6.7-2.patch
49 > 1321_x86_64-noiommu.patch 1325_iptables-headers.patch
50 > 1900_ulogd_timestamp.patch 2115_fa311-mac-address-fix.patch
51 > 2700_ppc-pegasos-2.6.6.patch 2905_mouse_click_fix.patch
52 > 2910_wacom_fix.patch 4505_bootsplash-3.1.4-sp-0.1-2.6.7.patch
53 > 4705_squashfs-2.0.patch 4715_supermount-2.0.4-2.6.7.patch
54 > 4905_speakup-20040618.patch"
55 >
56 > Test that out, slowly remove them until you find the culprit...
57 > I am suspicious of 2905_mouse_click_fix.patch as it's the only one that
58 > touches the input code, so try re-adding that one first to see if it
59 > rebreaks the keyboard.
60 >
61 > --Jeremy
62
63 --
64 Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@g.o>

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