Subject: Re: Returning DS10 problems with 1.5W Snapshot
To: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/17/2001 08:37:58
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:55:40PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> 
> I installed the 1.5W snapshot onto my DS10 and it seems to have brought
> back some bugs I worked around earlier...namely atrocious system
> performance (7 hour kernel build atrocious) anytime the USB system is
> compiled into the kernel.
> 
> The system, according to top, is spending 60-70% of its time in interrupt
> service...and the syslog is recording constant "stray irq 10" and "stray
> irq 1" messages.  IRQ 10 is the OHCI USB interface, or so dmesg says.
> 
> Although I can work around it by removing ohci and usb support from the
> kernel...any ideas on how to solve the problem?

You must be running an old SRM version on the DS10, the later ones disable
USB altogether. I once tried my DS10 and after upgrading beyond a specific
(forgot which..) SRM rev the USB was gone.

Wilko

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