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 2F15167A39 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:48:52 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: ibook1 hangs during boot, atyfb broken From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Olaf Hering In-Reply-To: <20060223232423.GA29454@suse.de> References: <20060223232423.GA29454@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:48:48 +1100 Message-Id: <1140752928.8264.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 00:24 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > My iBook1 did not work with recent kernels (2.6.15+), 2.6.13 was always ok. > Today I did some more testing, with 2.6.16-rc4-git3. > If I boot with 'quiet panic=1 root=/dev/blah', it will hang in 75% of the boots > before displaying the penguin. > Adding video=atyfb:off did fix it, tried it a few times. Then I removed > the quiet and video= option, and it did boot again. Then I reverted the > atyfb to 2.6.15 status and did a reboot loop. > Unfortunately, after 13 reboots with just 'panic=1 root=/x' it was stuck, after > time_init: processor frequency = 300MHz. It boots with video=atyfb:noaccel ? I suggest you report that to the linux-fbdev mailing list. That problem seems to happen with some wallstreet powerbooks too, there is definitely something broken there... Ben.