From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Per =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8yvind_Karlsen?= Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:18:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.6.18 on SunBlade 100/150 Message-Id: <200610191318.57642.pkarlsen@mandriva.com> List-Id: References: <200401070729.56891.pkarlsen@mandriva.com> In-Reply-To: <200401070729.56891.pkarlsen@mandriva.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Torsdag 19 oktober 2006 13:07, skrev Jim Watson: > On 07/01/2004, at 5:29 PM, Per =D8yvind Karlsen wrote: > > I'm left puzzled here now, will your display work correctly when > > disabling > > framebuffer with 'video=3Datyfb:off'? And if you're disabling it, why > > do you > > need to compile support for it? > > > > My experience is that I need atyfb properly working to intialize > > display, > > otherwise it'll boot with not display (openboot screen will stay > > and no linux > > output is displayed, while machine is actually booting and serial > > can be > > used). > > > > Am I missing something here..? (I'm fairly new to sparc, so please > > have > > patience:o) > > Hi Per, > > i am puzzled too - lets wait and see if anyone provides some > explanation... > > There are two issues here: > > (a) i chose to use the debian config file to build a kernel that will > run - the explanation is that I have no idea what to configure, but > the debian config is known to work > > (b) the kernel that I did build that way, will not run, unless I boot > with video:atyfb=3Doff > > This is on a sunblade100, it may be different on other sparc...you > need to report what you are using > > regrads > > jim Yes, but what I was wondering about is if you got any display at all or wer= e=20 relying on serial console or something? Is it possible to have display=20 without framebuffer? My config etc. were working fine with 2.6.17-rc3, don't know when the atyfb= =20 breakage occured, but in 2.6.17 it was broken... --=20 Regards, Per =D8yvind Karlsen Mandriva