From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr (smtp1.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98C32BF13 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 03:18:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:27:11 +0100 To: Christian Message-ID: <20050106162711.GA32598@pegasos> References: <200412261435.13562.marc.dietrich@ap.physik.uni-giessen.de> <200501041504.57588.marvin24@gmx.de> <1104850036.6164.25.camel@weizen.left.earth> <200501051233.25622.marvin24@gmx.de> <20050105154753.GA26760@pegasos> <41DC1F7E.5030003@gmx.net> <20050105173908.GC29131@pegasos> <41DD60A3.3020203@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <41DD60A3.3020203@gmx.net> From: Sven Luther Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org 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 Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:00:35PM +0100, Christian wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Luther schrieb: > > > > It is the standard powerpc debian kernel. apt-get install > > kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc, and you will find the config in > > /boot/config-2.6.8-powerpc. All the rest of the stuff can be found in the > [...] > > > > Well, i am really interested to know if the above debian kernel boots for you > > or not. And to find the patches that fix it if it doesn't. > > ok. but 2.6.8 +2.6.9 won't boot for me, as it does not include the > prep_pci.c fix, which was introduced in 2.6.10-rc3. i assume Sure, and backported to the debian kernel. > http://people.debian.org/~luther/prep/d-i-2005.01.03-prep > > is made from a current kernel, thus containing the fix (because it's > booting, upon "configure network" the network actually works too ;)) Nope, same kernel-source-2.6.8 based one as will ship with sarge. It is not uploaded yet, will probably be uploaded this WE. > i've fetched kernel-source-2.6.9 now, applied the prep_pci fix and > compiled the kernel. i *had* to make changes to the debian-config > (config-2.6.9-powerpc) because i am still not able to boot via disk. so i > enabled CONFIG_ROOT_NFS and CONFIG_TULIP, details here: These should be enabled by default in the debian config though :/ > http://www.nerdbynature.de/bits/hal/daily/boot/config-2.6.9-powerpc > http://www.nerdbynature.de/bits/hal/daily/boot/config-2.6.9-powerpc.my > http://www.nerdbynature.de/bits/hal/2.6.10-rc3/prep_pci_renumbered-2.6.10-rc3.patch > > the kernel boots, network is set up, but since everything else is modular, > it cries about several things. i can ping the host and i really think this > all would work, except when i set CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y > > http://www.nerdbynature.de/bits/hal/daily/boot/config-2.6.9-powerpc.my+scsi > > then the ABORT and RESET errors show upon upon initialization of the > scsi-adapter (no disk attached). i don't have a fix for this scsi-issue at > hand. maybe i missed something... Mmm, it works well here, so maybe your scsi hardware has some problems ? > hope this helps anyhow to get PReP ready for debian sometimes... > Christian. Well, prep on powerstack will be easy, the others will depend on people submiting a kernel patch for them ? Friendly, Sven Luther