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steven james
pyro at linuxlabs.com
Fri Apr 18 20:19:00 CEST 2003
Greetings,
I've been doing that for some time now. I haven't had a great problem,
though the sample size is smaller than MCR. How is the OS triggering a
power off followed by a cold start going to screw up PCIH2?
G'day,
sjames
On 18 Apr 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> steven james <pyro at linuxlabs.com> writes:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > If you're using the linuxbios_reset (kernel linuxbios patch), you can have
> > reset write 0x0e to 0xcf9. That will do a 3 second poweroff instead of a
> > simple reset. That should avoid the issue at least.
>
> A) lm_sensors would still not be reliable.
> B) It would quite possibly undo the fix for the PCIH2 that causes the
> boards to lock up while scanning the PCI bus.
> And without a cluster like MCR to test on I don't feel comfortable doing that.
>
> Eric
>
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