On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:12:29AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29 2002, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
> > > Anyway, people who are having VM trouble with the current 2.5.x series,
> > > please _complain_, and tell what your workload is. Don't sit silent and
> > > make us think we're good to go.. And if Ingo is right, I'll do the 3.0.x
> > > thing.
> >
> > I think the broken IDE in 2.5.x has meant that it got seriously less
> > testing overall than previous development trees :-(. Maybe after
> > halloween when it stabilises a bit more we'll get more reports in.
>
> 2.5 is definitely desktop stable, so please test it if you can. Until
> recently there was a personal show stopper for me, the tasklist
> deadline. Now 2.5 is happily running on my desktop as well.
>
> 2.5 IDE stability should be just as good as 2.4-ac.
>
Hmm - our definitions must be different.
ASUS P4S533 (SiS645DX chipset)
P4 2Ghz
1G PC2700 RAM
Disable SMP, enable APIC & IO APIC
Get "WARNING - Unexpected IO APIC found"
system freezes
Disable IO APIC, enable ACPI
system detects ACPI, builds table, freezes.
Disable ACPI, enable ide-scsi in the kernel
kernel panic analyzing hdc
None of these have been reported because I haven't had time to do all the
work involved in making a report that anyone on the team will read.
-- Murray J. Root ------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ ------------------------------------------------ Mandrake on irc.openprojects.net: #mandrake & #mandrake-linux = help for newbies #mdk-cooker = Mandrake Cooker- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Sep 30 2002 - 22:00:40 EST