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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.39 =?UTF-8?Q?doesn=E2=80=99t?= boot on POWER MAC
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 00:00 +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2011 11:55:14 +0400
> Andrey Gusev <ronne@list.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > A kernel 2.6.39 doesn't boot on my POWER MAC G4.
> 
> Same problem with my dual-G4 MDD. A few more infos:
> The machine hangs just after the message "Returning from prom_init" (still
> in the OF screen).
> The kernel works fine with the option maxcpus=1, but it locks up as soon as
> I try to enable the second CPU with echo 1 > /sys.../online.

I just verified that current upstream 3.0-rc1+ does boot fine.

Cheers,
Ben.