Re: 2.3.45 on B&W G3 PCI-PCI Bridge scan - Is this a problem in earlier kernels?

Re: 2.3.45 on B&W G3 PCI-PCI Bridge scan - Is this a problem in earlier kernels?

[Patrick Callahan]

Is it possible that this PCI-PCI bridge scan timing problem manifests
itself in earlier kernels on Blue
G3's as intermittent boot failures?  Ocasionally when I run in MacOS 8.6
for a time, and then boot into Linux using the BootX application version
1.2.? the boot gets to the point where it writes out the word booting...
on the console. but no further.

Is this worth investigating and fixing in the stable kernel if it is
shown to be a problem there?

Pat Callahan
Acton Ma USA
Programmer


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Re: 2.3.45 on B&W G3 PCI-PCI Bridge scan - Is this a problem in earlier kernels?

[BenH]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2000, Patrick Callahan <pac1@tiac.net> wrote:

>Is it possible that this PCI-PCI bridge scan timing problem manifests
>itself in earlier kernels on Blue
>G3's as intermittent boot failures?  Ocasionally when I run in MacOS 8.6
>for a time, and then boot into Linux using the BootX application version
>1.2.? the boot gets to the point where it writes out the word booting...
>on the console. but no further.
>
>Is this worth investigating and fixing in the stable kernel if it is
>shown to be a problem there?

Did you try compiling with xmon enabled in the config ? There's a small
buglet in the current devel tree that can break if it's not enabled.

Also, On NewWorld machines, yaboot booting should be more reliable than BootX.


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Re: 2.3.45 on B&W G3 PCI-PCI Bridge scan - Is this a problem in earlier kernels?

[Jeremy Knope]

speaking of 2.3.45... i rsync'd it yesterday or the
day before and it seems to be broken. makefile
problem. no rule to make(sorry can't remember what it
exactly was) but also trying to compile Kdevelop
1.1beta2 failed until i changed the kernel source to
stable because it couldn't find linux/autoconf.h
maybe i just rsynce again bust just checking.  so
yaboot would work better with B&W G3 400 rev2? i know
previous boots with 2.3.x kernels were failing but
Paul said they should work now. i have  his .config
that he posted too.
  -jeremy

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Jeremy T. Knope <jerome@knopej1.umeres.maine.edu>

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