From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: "Timothy A. Seufert" , Subject: Re: Platform configuration (was: Re: CONFIG_PPC != Mac) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:02:21 +0200 Message-Id: <20000901110221.5823@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >1. Resource conflicts are reported for the CMD646 IDE controller and >an Adaptec 2940UW card Please, send me logs of dmesg, /proc/device-tree (with lsprop), and / proc/pci. >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. I noticed that too. It happens only occasionally. Sometimes, it's so bad that I never get a single correct char displayed, sometimes it just doesn't happen. Note that I didn't have the problem for a week or two now, I thought it was fixed. Sounds a bit like someone is corrupting memory... >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. With the CMD controller ? The mac-io should work fine with the current bk, the CMD still have problems. >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. I'll see what I can do. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/