Re: [parisc-linux] test6 merge

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:04:56PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> this _may_ have fixed it.  richard, could you take out the tulip hack you
> put in and let me know whether the 720 works now?

720 still doesn't work; I'll look in to why that is.

> however, there is still at least one nasty bug.  on the c3k i was testing
> with earlier today, it would hpmc while starting init.  this might be
> cured now the pci resources are being mangled properly -- could have
> been to do with init trying to open /dev/console perhaps?  this was an
> elf sash init, fwiw.
> 
> i'm in toronto until sunday evening with no access to parisc hardware, so
> don't check out a version of the tree after the LINUS_240_TEST6_PREMERGE
> tag unless you want to play hunt-the-bug.  clearly i'd love it if i
> checked my email on monday morning and found cvs checkins which fixed
> the bugs, but i'm a dreamer :-)

Dream on ;-)  I've fixed drivers/char/serial.c to allocate our serial ports
from ttyS00 rather than from ttyS04, and my A180 now boots to a sash
prompt.  That got rid of the 'pci bus 0 not registered" message also.

Richard