new kernel for testing

[Chris Kloiber]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 19:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:28:46AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > One of the last minute changes is a series of patches to the input
> > subsystem that are supposed to fix a lot of the "tapping my laptops
> > touchpad doesn't work" bugs. So please beat hard on this kernel...
> 
> Vanilla 2.6.6. was totally broken on the VIA Athlon64 - continual stream
> of interrupts on the PS/2 port. The -424 kernel seems to be working in
> this situation
> 
> However
> 	-	ide-scsi is STILL missing so my Nakamichi CD changer
> 		STILL doesn't work (I only first pointed this out for beta1)
> 	-	powernow-k8 support is missing although the discussion
> 		as I understand it was that it was now stable
> 	-	AMI megaraid crashes on boot - should either be disabled
> 		for x86_64 or AMI's patches applied
> 
> I can't easily test the aacraid updates on this box but other than that
> it seems an improvement, although its short some rather important and
> trivial changes.
> 
> Given that the megaraid crash on boot, powernow-k8 and ide-scsi can all
> be fixed by sorting out the default .config it would be a shame not to
> sort that out. Other stuff like the velocity ethernet driver I can understand
> being higher risk, or wanting to wait until it comes in from upstream.
> 
> Alan

Since it seems like AMD64 is getting some love, any possibility someone
can look at the patches I need to apply to make it work reasonably well
on the eMachines laptops? While not perfect, you kernel gods might be
able to figure out a better way to fix things like making the keyboard
work without:

# perl -pi -e 's,HCI_HCD=m,HCI_HCD=y,g' SOURCES/kernel-2.6.6*.config

Or beat the the buggy bios' acpi and apic into submission. To that end,
tell me what to run on my box so I can put it in bugzilla in a format
that will do us both some good. The patch I apply is the one for the
2.6.x kernel I got from: 

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2641 

but even with that I need to pass 'noacpi pci=noapic,usepirqmask' to
make everything work.

-- 
Chris Kloiber