From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCB5T-0000mu-0M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8521E0948; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog105.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog105.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.119]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D17DE0948 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from source ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob105.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKSUY3S6pE+2l6JZGt29oQPT0smNgWbMZe@postini.com; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:04 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (ns2.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 36075DAE5 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:53:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.agr.st.com (mail1.agr.st.com [164.130.4.71]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 173C14C1B7 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:53:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [164.130.17.81] (ws2912.agr.st.com [164.130.17.81]) by mail1.agr.st.com (MOS 3.8.7a) with ESMTP id CUK72593 (AUTH "raffaele belardi"); Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:55:04 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49463793.8090000@st.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:55:15 +0100 From: Raffaele BELARDI User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081118 SeaMonkey/1.1.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] ASUS M2A-VM and kernel 2.6.27 References: <20081214183300.3ef9d3f1@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20081214183300.3ef9d3f1@osage.osagesoftware.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0879f78f-19ed-4efc-99bb-623ecdea1a20 X-Archives-Hash: 72ab0d6038c4c0d28cb03ab2140a5a68 David Relson wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody using an ASUS M2A-VM mobo with a 2.6.27 kernel? When I > attempt to boot a 2.6.27 kernel, I see the "Loading modules" message > (and messages for loaded modules) and then the boot process hangs. > With a 2.6.25 kernel, after all the module messages boot displays > "Activating mdev". I've never seen this message with the 2.6.27 > kernel. For that matter, I tried 2.6.26 a while back and had the same > problem. > > Anybody know about this problem or what might cause it? > > On a related note, a few weeks back I started seeing kernel messages > like: > > PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 8192 bytes at device 0000:00:14.1 > PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 1536 bytes at device 0000:02:00.0 > > The 2.6.25 kernel ran fine for several months before these started > appearing, so I suspect a hardware issue. However, when running > 2.6.27's "make xconfig" I noticed there's an AMD_IOMMU option. I'd > very much like to see if it relates to the messages above. > > If you've got an M2A-VM running, perhaps you could share your .config > with me??? I have used on a M2A-VM without problems the 2.6.27-rc6 from the kernel.org, now I am using the 2.6.28-rc6 (well, almost without problems, see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11599, and I have yet another USB-related problem with this mobo). I'm on a different box now, I'll send you my .config tomorrow if you still need it. But I always have all the modules I need built in the kernel and module loading disabled, so I might not be affected by your issue. I've not seen yet the IOMMU message. I did update the BIOS before installing Gentoo, there is one upgrade specifically released to support Linux on the Asus support site. raf