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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: linuxppc-dev@tux.tmfweb.nl
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: powerpc.git build error
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:56:29 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164581791.4773.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061126190609.GA20291@nospam.com>


> > And CONFIG_KEXEC=y, which is not in any 32-bit defconfigs. Do you
> > actually want it enabled?
> 
> Long story... I'm trying to get a completely working Lombard with all
> of its features (PCMCIA wireless, suspend-to-RAM, etc.). 

All of those things should be working pretty much out of the box on a
lombard ...

> However, this failed. For example, currently I can only reboot into Linux with the
> reset-button on the back: not very convenient. The symptons are that
> it shuts down correctly, but pressing the power buttons sounds the
> chime once and that's it. The screen stays blank.

Ugh ? Can you be more precise on what exact steps you are doing and what
the result is ? Also it might be worth wiping the PRAM clean...

>  So I wanted to try
> rebooting-with-kexec so I could try different kernels and find one
> which worked completely. So, no, I don't want it enabled in a perfect
> world. But we're not there yet :)

kexec is not supported currently for the pmac platform. There would be
quite a bit of work to get it working.

Ben.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-26 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-25 22:58 powerpc.git build error Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-11-26  6:39 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-11-26 19:06   ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-11-26 20:47     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-11-26 21:05       ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-11-26 21:19         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-11-27  3:16         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-27 23:12           ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-11-27 23:17             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-26 22:56     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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