From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BA667C86 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:55:56 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: powerpc.git build error From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: linuxppc-dev@tux.tmfweb.nl In-Reply-To: <20061126190609.GA20291@nospam.com> References: <20061125225807.GA10510@nospam.com> <1164523183.10222.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061126190609.GA20291@nospam.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:56:29 +1100 Message-Id: <1164581791.4773.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > > And CONFIG_KEXEC=y, which is not in any 32-bit defconfigs. Do you > > actually want it enabled? > > Long story... I'm trying to get a completely working Lombard with all > of its features (PCMCIA wireless, suspend-to-RAM, etc.). All of those things should be working pretty much out of the box on a lombard ... > However, this failed. For example, currently I can only reboot into Linux with the > reset-button on the back: not very convenient. The symptons are that > it shuts down correctly, but pressing the power buttons sounds the > chime once and that's it. The screen stays blank. Ugh ? Can you be more precise on what exact steps you are doing and what the result is ? Also it might be worth wiping the PRAM clean... > So I wanted to try > rebooting-with-kexec so I could try different kernels and find one > which worked completely. So, no, I don't want it enabled in a perfect > world. But we're not there yet :) kexec is not supported currently for the pmac platform. There would be quite a bit of work to get it working. Ben.