Re: ia64 stability problems on HP rx2600-2

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

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>>>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:55:34 +0200, Michael Vistein <michael@vistein.de> said:

  Michael> Hallo, David Mosberger schrieb:
  >> Can't help with that (I'm not using Debian kernels, just stock
  >> 2.6.LATEST).

  Michael> Hm, didn't get 2.6.11.5 to compile, there seem to be code
  Michael> errors.

What specifically?
I don't know about the 2.6.x.y releases, but the mainline is being
tracked here:

	http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/kerncomp/

and it looks good as of today (2.6.12-rc1).

  Michael> In EFI I can select mainly 3 devices (I think its first
  Michael> Serial, MP serial and VGA, and the serials have ANSI, vt100
  Michael> etc to chose). When I select first serial or vga, kernel
  Michael> boots without output but fine. I add console=ttyS3 and I
  Michael> can see everything over MP again.  But if I choose the
  Michael> second output device, I can see the kerenl boot without the
  Michael> need of a console= line. But it says:

  Michael> NET: Regi

  Michael> and then everything hangs. I even have to reset the MP to
  Michael> get access to the console again. Any hint?

Well, I really don't have any experience with this (I don't normally
use MP console) but I wonder whether something is seeing a Ctrl-S and
stopping console output (the next character that would normally be
printed is an "s").  Is this at 9600 baud?

Bjorn, do you have any idea?

	--david