From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: mikpe@csd.uu.se, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-ben8 vmlinux.coff CLAIM error on PowerMac 4400
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:07:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030313160724.GA10742@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1047571502.790.76.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>
On Thu, Mar 13, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> what are the respective sizes of the working 2.4.6 kernel
> and my non working 2.4.20 ? Can you try to shrink the 2.4.20
> down to the 2.4.6 size (removing drivers etc...) and see if
> that helps ?
There are 2 problems.
My 'loading data' failure must be fixed by page alignment.
diff -purN linux_ppc.orig/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script linux_ppc/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script
--- linux_ppc.orig/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script 2002-11-27 14:42:42.000000000 +0000
+++ linux_ppc/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script 2002-11-27 18:53:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ SECTIONS
PROVIDE (etext = .);
/* Read-write section, merged into data segment: */
- . = ALIGN(8);
+ /* this must be page aligned for OF 1.05 in old Macs, for coff boot */
+ . = ALIGN(0x1000);
.data :
{
*(.data)
The second problem might be related, I remember Eddie can not boot
anymore with recent kernels and the patch above doesnt fix it. It is
probably still unfixed, and the cause unknown.
Gruss Olaf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-13 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-13 14:53 2.4.20-ben8 vmlinux.coff CLAIM error on PowerMac 4400 mikpe
2003-03-13 15:25 ` Olaf Hering
2003-03-13 15:58 ` mikpe
2003-03-13 16:00 ` Olaf Hering
2003-03-13 16:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-13 16:07 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2003-03-13 16:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-13 17:08 ` mikpe
2003-03-13 17:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-13 23:13 ` mikpe
2003-03-13 23:18 ` Olaf Hering
2003-03-13 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-14 13:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-14 16:01 ` mikpe
2003-03-14 16:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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