From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp3.wanadoo.fr (smtp3.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.28]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B6D2BDB5 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 09:20:57 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:28:08 +0100 To: Sebastian Heutling Message-ID: <20041231222808.GB8078@pegasos> References: <200412261435.13562.marc.dietrich@ap.physik.uni-giessen.de> <41CF77A9.9040405@gmx.net> <20041231095557.GA16480@pegasos> <1104505249.6794.5.camel@weizen.left.earth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <1104505249.6794.5.camel@weizen.left.earth> From: Sven Luther Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Marc Dietrich Subject: Re: [FYI] linux 2.6 still not working with PReP (ppc32) List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:00:49PM +0100, Sebastian Heutling wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:55 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:47:05AM +0100, Christian wrote: > > > Marc Dietrich schrieb: > > > >Hi all, > > > > > > > >I read this thread about booting a PowerStack with newer kernels. > > > >Motivated by this, I tried to compile a 2.6.10 kernel on my machine (with > > > >sym53c825a onboard). Sadly, the scsi controller always timeouts during > > > >initialisation. I > > > > I also have some strange issues with network support using the standard debian > > 2.6.8 kernel. ifconfig upping the decchip ethernet on the powerstack freezes > > the kernel, and i hear reports of problems on IBM PReP hardware too with not > > working ethernet, altough there is no freeze. > > > > Any idea on this ? > > Does it contain the IRQ patch? Where does it boot from SCSI or net? What > PCI-Devices are installed? Probably not, just the standard debian kernel, i donĂ't remember any irq patches, but there where a bunch of patches from leighbb. it is done netbooting, and the only pci device installed is the cirruss logic graphic card. > I use an older patched 2.6.8 debian kernel. It works fine here except > that I can't insert the eepro100 module via /etc/modules on boot because > some times it crashes on module insertion (or on ifconfig via init > script - I don't remember exactly) and sometimes not. Therefore I do it > by hand after boot up. Can you mail me the patch in question, or better yet mail it to the bug report about this ? 287933@bugs.debian.org Friendly, Sven Luther