Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:40:45 +0100 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.10-ac1 |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:25:50 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > What do you need 'serialize' option for? > > I didn't check if the problem is gone with 2.6.10 but there's boards > like my tyan 2885 which do need the serialize option to work properly > for add-on ide controllers. > > From the X86-64 patch release notes of Andi Kleen: > > Reports that dual Tyan S2885 and S2880 can lock up when multiple IDE > channels are stressed in parallel. "noapic" or "ideX=serialize" seems to > work around it. Andre Hedrick thinks it's a generic bug/race in the IDE > code. > > Do you want to force people to disable the io-apic just because of > option removal? In my case the serialized devices are a disk and a > dvd-rw which is rarely used, so disabling the io-apic is a bad solution.
No, I want them to fix the problem - whenever it is - ide or apic code. :) - 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/
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