On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 12:13 -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, David Miller wrote: > > > 2.6.17.x should be extremely stable and there is nothing > > in the current tree that ought to fix this. > > > > Please retry with gcc-4.0.x, I really want to eliminate > > gcc-4.1.x because that compiler has caused problems for > > other folks. In fact I'm almost hoping it's a gcc-4.1.x > > problem so we can investigate it using this test case and > > fix it :) > > FWIW, I have experienced exactly the opposite while preparing the 2.6.17 > for Debian: the SMP kernel built with gcc-4.0 was hanging randomly > during boot, but works fine when built with gcc-4.1. Was this an SMP machine/kernel? If so, it sounds like the scheduler tuning bug, fixed in the latest kernel (maybe dave knows git sha). -- Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/ Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ SwissDisk - http://www.swissdisk.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
