From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jeff Rugen <jprugen@earthlink.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RTC and SCSI for PowerStack/2.4.6 Kernel
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:00:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010708120006.D825@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c10782$96a31e60$0401a8c0@trex>
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 12:49:58AM -0700, Jeff Rugen wrote:
> I've finally gotten a 2.4.x kernel to boot on my Motorola Powerstack (100MHz
> 604), but I'm having two problems. I haven't found any info about them
> searching the archives, so I'm wondering if anyone has seen/resolved the
> problems I have, or can direct me to more information.
Series E? Got one right here, and I just booted 2_4_devel too :)
> First of all, the boot hangs when executing /sbin/hwclock. I have (or maybe
> 'had' now) the real-time-clock built as a module (in
> drivers/macintosh/rtc.o), but the only thing I determined before commenting
> out that line in rc.sysinit was that the machine hung when reaching that
> point. Is anyone successfully using the realtime clock on a Powerstack with
> 2.4.x, and if so, is there anything in particular that needs to be
> done/patched/whatever? /sbin/hwclock is from util-linux-2.10m-7c.
That looks like an OK version of util-linux. Try compiling CONFIG_RTC_PPC in
and not CONFIG_RTC.
> Second, I am getting SCSI timeouts when running 2.4.6. I don't know enough
> about SCSI, but the log to the console is the following:
Consistant? I saw this once when booting off the HD but not the next time.
Then I went back to NFS rooted.
> Which leads me to believe that I at least have the correct SCSI driver build
> (NCR53C8XX, as the revision of 0x2 is less than the 16 that Configure.help
> seems to indicate). Should I instead be using the 53c7,8xx driver? Or the
> sym53c8xx?
sym53c8xx will tell you unsupported chip. I don't know if 53c7,8xx will work
but give it a shot, please. :)
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-08 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-08 7:49 RTC and SCSI for PowerStack/2.4.6 Kernel Jeff Rugen
2001-07-08 19:00 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2001-07-09 14:38 ` Jeff Rugen
2001-07-09 14:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-09 14:57 ` Tom Rini
2001-07-09 15:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-07-09 15:17 ` Tom Rini
2001-07-09 15:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-09 16:20 ` Jeff Rugen
2001-07-09 18:48 ` Olaf Hering
2001-07-09 20:37 ` Jeff Rugen
2001-07-09 20:54 ` Olaf Hering
2001-12-13 16:13 ` Tom Rini
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