Re: interesting things with PC164 and latest milo-980602

Quant-X Alpha Linux Support (stefan@sime.com)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:33:01 +0200

Hi Alexander !

> compiler, kernel and some apps going to older milos is impossible on pc164.
>
> The hang happens just after the line
> SMC FDC37C93X Ultra I/O Controller found @ 0x370

> Suspiciously looks like a hang I experienced a while ago with older kernels.
> At that time the hang magically disappeared when I inserted a delay in a
> function for the smc fdc init. Have not tried that now yet.

Same here on our 1GB Ram LX. It hangs most of the time there,
sometimes a line earlier (PCI message).
I must boot up to nine times to avoid this. :-(
This timing problem happens also when using 2.0.33...

> At that time the hang magically disappeared when I inserted a delay in a
> function for the smc fdc init. Have not tried that now yet.

Cool. Please post your delay-patch here...

ciao -
Stefan

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