From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@mipsys.com>
To: Christof Petig <christof.petig@wtal.de>,
<linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: 2.2.17pre9-ben1 gmac problems on iBook
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:18:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000704101805.530@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3961B34E.DE400323@wtal.de>
>
>after some problems with linuxcare.com.au's current kernel I was glad to
>see your
>announcement.
>But your new gmac driver still has the same problem for me:
>
>Once the card is activated (and a network cable plugged in) the machine
>tells me
> eth0: Duplicate entry of the interrupt handler !
>six or seven times and then goes into kernel debugger (which simply
>garbages my
>screen)
>
>Hardware:
>iBook 300MHz, 192MB, ATI Rage 3D Mobility AGPx2 (or so) [4c4e], BootX
>
>Christof
>
>PS: I have never been able to boot any 2.3+ kernels since I get a bunch of
>DMA timeouts. Perhaps the kernel arguments?
> ide0=noautotune idebus=66
>Though I tried some variants (empty line and more) last time without any
>success.
>What changed, though, is that it can read my partition table (around
>March, 10th?
>the 2.3.x kernel wasn't able to do that)
Which bootloader are you using ? I suspect you are using BootX. The
kernel is not reliable when using it, you should be using yaboot.
Ben.
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2000-07-04 9:50 ` 2.2.17pre9-ben1 gmac problems on iBook Christof Petig
2000-07-04 10:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2000-07-04 15:25 ` Christof Petig
2000-07-05 13:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-12 10:12 ` Christof Petig
2000-07-12 10:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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