Re: Re: patch for timer.c

[Uwe Bugla]

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Datum: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:32:02 +0200 (CEST)
Von: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
An: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx>
Betreff: Re: patch for timer.c

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Uwe Bugla wrote:
> 
> > BUT: This is a âPentium-4-onlyâ solution. On my file server, which
> is a Pentium 3 machine, the kernel stops booting and hangs the machine, no
> matter if I use framebuffer console with âvga=791â or not.
> > Would you please try to find a fix for every architecture at any speed?
> 
> Where does it hang? Could you also check with SysRq+P or Alt+ScrollLock 
> where it hangs?
> 
> bye, Roman

Hi Roman,
I have been practising Linux for more than a decade now.
	
I am working with standard configurations.
	
As standard configurations for mm-kernels differ from mainline kernels, I often have to disable 1 or even 2 modules. In this case (jumping from 2.6.17.4 to 2.6.18-rc1-mm1) I had to disable âSony Laptop Extras.â

The patch for timer.c has been proven to be responsible for boot errors, unbootable machines and keyboard mismatches in kernel 2.6.17-mm plus 2.6.18-rc1.

As outline attachments I add two standard configs, one for a P 4 machine which is working fine, one for a P 3 machine which hangs up the machine during the boot process. If you still find out that the error is mine I declare you king.
But the indices offer enough pressure that this issue is definitely one closely connected to that patch for timer.c.

I do not get any boot prompt.
It stops somewhere at the USB initialization I guess.
But I will have a closer look on this and give you another feedback in about two hours.


Regards

Uwe

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