From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:10:13 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Stefan Jeglinski Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: whacked out 2.2.18preX - last gasp Message-ID: <20001121081013.G552@opus.bloom.county> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from jeglin@4pi.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:03:43PM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:03:43PM -0500, Stefan Jeglinski wrote: > ERROR - Attempting to write value for > unconfigured variable (CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE). > > when using make xconfig. I can't see how this could be related, but it is true. xconfig is buggy sometimes. Try make oldconfig afterwards, it'll prompt for anything which didn't get set by xconfig. > It's frankly hard at this point to buy that one of my PCI devices is > walking over the kernel. Or if it is, it looks like the end of the > Linux line for my PowerTowerPro with the 2940 card. I think this is > either a bug in the aic7xxx driver that has been exposed by 2.2.18 > changes (highly doubtful, there are too many 2940s out there for it > to have been missed), or a linux-pmac bug. I just don't know enough > yet to prove it, much less find it. Hmm. 2.2.18pre21 from linuxppc_2_2 bk works on my G4/Yikes! with a 2940UW in it. What compiler are you using? -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/