On Saturday 01 August 2009, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > I suggest you use Dave's patch please, it is IMO the most correct > patch. Right. I think the original patch is probably responsible for endless errors on shutdown/reboot: Bad Address (null pointer deref?): Code=15 regs=00000000bea7cf70 (Addr=c00007ffbea7c) YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI PSW: 00001000000001001111111100001110 Not tainted r00-03 000000ff0804ff0e 00000000405ead40 000000006fc00000 00000000bea7ca18 r04-07 0000000037de0000 ffffffffffe00008 00000000bea7ca18 00000000405ea540 r08-11 000000000fc212c1 000000006bc23fd9 000000000000000f 00000000faf59048 r12-15 00000000be784b28 0000000000000025 00000000faf5932d 0000000000000000 r16-19 00000000bea7bfa0 0000000000000014 000000004074b134 00000000bea7cda0 r20-23 00000000ffffe000 000000004011d2b4 0000000040479004 0000000000000010 r24-27 0000000000000000 000000004011d1e0 000000004011d838 00000000405dcd40 r28-31 ffffffffbea7cd90 0000000000000350 00000000bea7cf70 ffffffffbea7cda0 sr00-03 000000000607b000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000607b000 sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 0000000040127a10 0000000040127a14 IIR: 0f8010dc ISR: 000000003ffff800 IOR: c00007ffbea7cd90 CPU: 1 CR30: 00000000bea60000 CR31: 0000000011111111 ORIG_R28: 0000000000000000 IAOQ[0]: unwind_once+0x370/0x3d0 IAOQ[1]: unwind_once+0x374/0x3d0 RP(r2): 0x6fc00000 John's version works too for me and the system now shuts down cleanly. Cheers, FJP P.S. If anybody ever wants access to my box, just ask: - model: 9000/785/J5600 - cpu: 2 x PA8600 (PCX-W+) at 552.000000 MHz - memory: 2048 MB - 3 x 9.1 GB SCSI harddisks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html