Re: IDE issue, no booting and that last_ipl

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Alan Buxey wrote:
> It *APPEARS* that the system hangs in ide-probe.c   this is a quick 
> statement...i didnt have too much time to delve into the path this code takes
> (system reboots and kernel compiles take some time). 
> 
> there are a few things I'm concerned about
> 
> 1) IDEBUSSPEED.  this seems to want to run a 33MHz.  is this okay for gayle ??
> The A1200 motherboard only runs at 14.x/28.x ??  I tried with  idebus=14
> etc etc but ide-probe still came up with 33 - i guess  bootstrap
> doesnt pass this argument along?

AFAIK the IDE bus speed isn't used at all with Gayle.

> 2) delays.  do we use the mdelay(); calls in IDE system...or do we use the
> HZ/20 calls.
> 
> 3) if this *IS* to do with IRQ and address space allocation (as it appears
> to be leaning towards) what has changed?  oeverything prior to 2.4.14 
> worked.... i dont have a 2.4.13 source code tarball anymore (dumped my old
> CD's too....no backups there!) I'd love it if someone had such a tarball
> I could FTP as then I could start 'diffing' the files in drivers/ide
> to see what happened.......

Can't you get 2.4.13 from APUS CVS?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li...

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds