Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

[Stephen Clark]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it 
> > failed on both.
> >
> > Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in 
> > interrupt routine
> > for my rtl8139.
> >
> > This device works fine in 2.6.20.2
> >    
>
> That's regression #1.  Are you able to take a photograph of the screen
> when it has crashed?  Setting the display to 50 rows would make that more
> useful.  (serial console would be better, but I assume that thing has
> no serial port).
>
>  
>
> > The other laptop is a hp n5430 it fail in the ali-pata driver not being 
> > able to read the cdrom, timeing out
> > and dropping into a bash shell telling me to tell it where the root 
> > filesystem is.
> >    
>
> That's #2, I guess.
>
>  
>
> > Also it sets my hard
> > drive to udma/33 when it run find at udma/66 under 2.6.20.1.
> >    
>
> #3.  Hopefully it's related to #2.
>
> Please send the full dmesg output for 2.6.20.1 on the n5430.
>
>  
>
> > It would 
> > really be nice if the people makeing
> > all these changes would at least keep things compatible with what they 
> > were before. These are regressions
> > guys!
> >    
>
> We try ;)
>
>  
>
> > This hp n5430 system works fine with 2.6.20.1.
> >    
>
> Thanks, it helps.
>
>
>  
I'll see if I can get a serial port console setup on each laptop, 
failing that I'll take a
photo.

Thanks,
Steve

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