From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 12:00:06 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Jeff Rugen Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: RTC and SCSI for PowerStack/2.4.6 Kernel Message-ID: <20010708120006.D825@opus.bloom.county> References: <000701c10782$96a31e60$0401a8c0@trex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <000701c10782$96a31e60$0401a8c0@trex> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/