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From: BenH <bh40@calva.net>
To: Patrick Callahan <pac1@tiac.net>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 2.3.45 on B&W G3 PCI-PCI Bridge scan - Is this a problem in earlier kernels?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:03:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000220150339.012539@192.168.1.10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38AEFE72.2E9C7300@tiac.net>


On Sat, Feb 19, 2000, Patrick Callahan <pac1@tiac.net> wrote:

>Is it possible that this PCI-PCI bridge scan timing problem manifests
>itself in earlier kernels on Blue
>G3's as intermittent boot failures?  Ocasionally when I run in MacOS 8.6
>for a time, and then boot into Linux using the BootX application version
>1.2.? the boot gets to the point where it writes out the word booting...
>on the console. but no further.
>
>Is this worth investigating and fixing in the stable kernel if it is
>shown to be a problem there?

Did you try compiling with xmon enabled in the config ? There's a small
buglet in the current devel tree that can break if it's not enabled.

Also, On NewWorld machines, yaboot booting should be more reliable than BootX.


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-19 20:34 2.3.45 on B&W G3 PCI-PCI Bridge scan - Is this a problem in earlier kernels? Patrick Callahan
2000-02-20 14:03 ` BenH [this message]
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2000-02-20 16:31 Jeremy Knope

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