From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FC9EEC6.8040507@g-house.de> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:21:10 +0100 From: Christian Kujau MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: 2.6 PReP issues, still freezing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: hi, after more days of compiling (at least now i know my ppc has good RAM :-) ) and testing serveral kernels, i think now it's not a network-related but a ppc-specific problem. Andrew Morton gave me the hint to just copy drivers/net/tulip/ from the working 2.5.30 kernel to a recent one. i've done so; i've copied all tulip stuff to a fresh 2.6.0-test11 kernel, after booting i was able to load the module, but a following "ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.1" freezed the machine -- as every kernel after 2.5.30 i was able to compile. a fix from Jeff Garzik went to linuxppc-dev (i saw it on lkml too), subject was "2.6 PReP fix? (Was: [jgarzik@pobox.com: [PATCH/CFT] de2104x fixes])". i found out, that i can load 3 different modules for my card: 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1800 [size=128] Memory at c300a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at c1040000 [disabled] [size=256K] /lib/modules/2.6.0-test11/kernel/drivers/net/tulip: de2104x.ko de4x5.ko tulip.ko /lib/modules/2.5.30/kernel/drivers/net/tulip: de2104x.o de4x5.o tulip.o and every module gave me a freeze with 2.6.0-test11 (oh, i forgot to test, if de2104x.o and de4x5.o are working correctly with 2.5.30 since i've used always "tulip") and so, this makes me think it's a ppc-specific problem. no, i don't say it's easier now to fix, perhaps it's even harder, because a lot has changed in the ppc port too. if we could blame the device-driver, the codesize to play with would be a lot smaller... but since really no other PReP people complain, i think i'll stay with 2.4. a while. the machine is not that fast and i need a faster one anyway... Thank you for your time, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #389: /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/