From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [regression] 2.6.39-rc[1-3] fail to boot on G5 PowerMac
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:54:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302818089.28876.134.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimykvKp=bwsFyNE9fWqcE9Ffws6bA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:25 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> Something worth trying: turn off CONFIG_IDE. That's what I need to
> boot 2.6.39-rc[1-3] on PowerPC G5.
>
> I know Jens has been fixing problems with IDE versus his plug/unplug
> changes, but it's still not fixed for me in rc3.
>
> In other mail http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/14/614
> I see Linus recommending his post-rc3 commit 6631e635c65d
> but I've not tried that myself yet.
Well, the disk is SATA so it's CONFIG_ATA/libata, which works fine here,
unless you somewhat replaced your CD-ROM with a legacy IDE disk :-) Or
maybe the problem is related to the CD-ROM drive. There's a libata
driver for it nowadays, so you can use PATA_MACIO instead of IDE_PMAC
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-14 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-12 17:30 [regression] 2.6.39-rc[1-3] fail to boot on G5 PowerMac Mikael Pettersson
2011-04-12 18:59 ` kevin diggs
2011-04-12 22:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-12 23:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-13 8:16 ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-04-13 8:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-13 17:52 ` kevin diggs
2011-04-13 23:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-13 23:43 ` kevin diggs
2011-04-14 9:02 ` Michel Dänzer
2011-04-14 21:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-04-14 21:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-04-17 3:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-04-17 7:00 ` Jens Axboe
2011-04-17 17:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2011-04-14 22:14 ` Mikael Pettersson
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