From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: BriQ & Linux 2.6 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Jamie Heilman Cc: linuxppc-dev list In-Reply-To: <20040522064520.GM8520@audible.transient.net> References: <20040521074018.GD8520@audible.transient.net> <1085181034.6755.7.camel@gaston> <20040521233523.GJ8520@audible.transient.net> <1085199239.9230.4.camel@gaston> <20040522064520.GM8520@audible.transient.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1085209944.9234.7.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 17:12:26 +1000 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 16:45, Jamie Heilman wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Well... the base clock isn't what the driver thinks, so it must be > > hacked. But the driver doesn't provide a clean way to set another > > base clock, I'm trying to find something better than what the hack > > in the patch does. > > Well progress so far, I have 2.6.6 booting now, had to fumble a little > to apply one chunk but the rest was easy. Problems so far: during the > entire boot, my console is line-noise-like hash[1], until runlevel 2, > then it starts behaving correctly. The NICs (I have the PCI > expansion + extra NIC board) are having some issues.... Linux console starts at 9600 while the briq firmware use a different speed (I don't remember which). Try adding the speed ot the kernel command line console=ttyS0, For example console=ttyS0,38400 > RX packets:118521 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1 errors:57244 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:57244 > > ...and yet, strangly I don't seem to be having any obvious network > performance problems. Interesting. I keep seeing reports of problems with pcnet32 driver, that's weird though. > Now this isn't the first time I've had issues with either of those, > and I think there are some patches in the Total Impact kernel source > for the NIC issue. So I'm definately a lot closer than I was. -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/