Keith Owens wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:07:05 +1100,
> Matthew Geier <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >At 00:58 1-12-2000 +0100, Andy Lo A Foe wrote:
> >>Latest CVS tree from XFS hangs at boot right after IDE channel detection,
> >>but before IDE device probing (I think). Is this a known bug? Plain test11
> >>works fine, and so does an earlier -XFS-test10 tree.
> >
> > I just got into playing with XFS. I have the same 'lockup' at IDE init
> >time. The -test5 (?) based RPM works fine, a clean -test11 boots, but
> >the -test11xfs freezes solid.
>
> The APIC initialization code in standard 2.4.0-test11 kernels had some
> problems and would hang machines during device probe. The bug was
> fixed in 2.4.0-test12-pre6. I updated XFS-test11 to kdb v1.7 earlier
> today which includes a backport of the APIC fix. The fix may not be
> in the CVS tree yet so I have attached the latest version of
> arch/i386/kernel/apic.c, replace the 2.4.0-test11 version of apic.c.
>
>
I've started merging the current tree up to test12... hopefully I will have it
finished
by late this afternoon.
-Russell
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