From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 08:03:21 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: "Timothy A. Seufert" Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Platform configuration (was: Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Message-ID: <20000901080321.C14222@opus.bloom.county> References: <39AE80BD.D86B34DA@embeddededge.com> <20000831184447.D3823@opus.bloom.county> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from tas@mindspring.com on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:42:14AM -0700 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:42:14AM -0700, Timothy A. Seufert wrote: > At 6:44 PM -0700 8/31/00, Tom Rini wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:10:55PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Dan Malek wrote: > >> > >> > I would also like to see us spend a little more time trying to > >> > stabilize 2.4 instead of trying to solve elaborate configuration and > >> > boot schemes. That is what 2.5 is for. > >> > >> What are your problems with 2.4 ? I'm at 2.4.0-test7 and I've not had any > >> problem so far, although I still need to upgrade my modutils. > > > >Here's a few: The PCI resource allocation/conflict stuff has "issues" with > >some Pmacs (7600, Yikes! G4, I don't know about others). > > B&W G3 as well (same thing as the Yikes! G4 really). I have the > following problems on one (latest BK 2.4.0-test8 kernel, as of a > couple minutes ago): > > 1. Resource conflicts are reported for the CMD646 IDE controller and > an Adaptec 2940UW card There should be more conflicts reported than that. But not all drivers check for conflicts yet. > 2. During the fb probe of the Rage 128 PCI card, a pattern of colored > characters is written to the screen. This might be somebody's > deliberate debug output, as it almost looks too regular to be an > error. That does seem odd, I didn't get that one. > 3. When attempting to do the partition scan, the kernel has massive > problems with lost IDE interrupts and failed DMA stuff. Eventually > it gives up and moves on without successfully scanning my IDE drive. On the cmd646? Did/does this happen w/ older kernels as well? I know test7/test8-preX are more broken. > 4. Probably due to the resource conflict problem, the aic7xxx driver > doesn't recognize the 2940. This is a showstopper for me because my > root partition's on a drive connected to the 2940. This can be kludged around. search for pci_enable_device (should be 2 lines something like: if(pci_enable_device()) break; or return; and comment it out. Then you can see what else is broken. (I currently have USB kbd problems as well, w/ the standard apple kbd) -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/