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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: boot problems on pseries
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:37:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155137850.17187.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809013609.GA10876@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 18:36 -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> Hello,
> 	So I do most of my work on some IBM JS20 powerpc blades. They
> usually run a git kernel on a stock RHEL4 distribution. The contents of
> /proc/cpuinfo is:
> 
> processor       : 0
> cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported
> clock           : 1600.000000MHz
> revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)
> 
> processor       : 1
> cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported
> clock           : 1600.000000MHz
> revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)
> 
> timebase        : 199837651
> platform        : pSeries
> machine         : CHRP IBM,8842-21X
> 
> 
> Recently, I discovered that newer kernels would no longer fully boot.
> There's no oops or panic message and they get through most of the kernel
> initialization before simply hanging. I spent some quality time today with
> git-bisect, and traced the badness down to this commit:

I'm just back from vacation and looking into this. 

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-09  1:36 boot problems on pseries Mark Fasheh
2006-08-09 11:51 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-09 15:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-20 17:00 dtutty
2006-08-21 14:56 ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-22 16:50   ` dtutty
2006-08-22 22:35     ` Olaf Hering
2006-08-23 23:59     ` Linas Vepstas

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