Larry Stefani wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > I used git bisect and narrowed the lockup to the > "[MIPS] Retire flush_icache_page from mm use." patch > (see git results below). This is consistent with my > earlier testing and what Thiemo reported March 3 on > the linux.debian.kernel list. I tried his patch (mark > pages tainted by PIO IDE as dirty) on 2.6.16.60, but > it didn't prevent the lockup. ISTR I got 2.6.16.60 to work by always enabling the cache flush in ide.h (it is currently only run to clean out aliases). Keep in mind that this is a crude workaround on top of other cache code hacks for the SB-1. Thiemo