From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:36:23 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Stefan Jeglinski Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: whacked out 2.2.18preX - last gasp Message-ID: <20001121083623.H552@opus.bloom.county> References: <20001121081013.G552@opus.bloom.county> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from jeglin@4pi.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:25:45AM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:25:45AM -0500, Stefan Jeglinski wrote: > > > 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? > > dmesg: > > gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release/franzo) #1 > > rpm -qa |grep gcc: > > gcc-2.95.2-1i > gcc-c++-2.95.2-1i > gcc-objc-2.95.2-1i You might wanna try 2.95.3-2j, which should be in fsirl's dir on dev. But I really do doubt this is why. > What I'm worried about mainly is the 6 slots and the PCI bridge > structure in the PowerTowerPro (akin to PowerMac 9500). It is more > "complex" than G4, no? From my previous discussion with you and > others, I gather that there are a lot of problems with the PCI stuff, > that may not be cleared up for quite a while? Actually, the linuxppc_2_5 bitkeeper tree (which is getting merged into 2_3, for inclusing into hopefully 2.4.0-final from linus) has a giant PCI re-write, so 9500s/et al might actually work happily now. But yes, from what I've gathered from trying to work w/ a 9500 and 2.2.18pre21 there just might be something broken now. (The video card refuses to work at all, regardless of slot). -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/