From: Gary Thomas <gdt@linuxppc.org>
To: Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
Cc: Johnnie Peters <jpeters@phx.mcd.mot.com>
Cc: Johnnie Peters <jpeters@phx.mcd.mot.com>,
Alois Fertl <alois_fertl@mucmot.muenchen.europe.mcd.mot.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
Dan Malek <dmalek@jlc.net>,
Cort Dougan <cort@persephone.cs.nmt.edu>
Subject: Re: Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200)
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:21:34 -0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.990204192134.gdt@linuxppc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990204140930.A1710@wogglebug.cygnus.com>
Before it quit, did it tell you how much memory it thought it had?
Perhaps the OFW memory sizing stuff is wrong... Although I thought
I had forced it to think that there was 32M if there was no OFW.
On 04-Feb-99 Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:18:25PM -0000, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>
>> On 01-Feb-99 Michael Meissner wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:21:36PM -0000, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> >> I have put up all my patches against 2.2.0p7 at:
>> >> ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/gary/diffs-2.2.0p7-Jan20
>> >> These are diffs against the virgin 2.2.0-pre7.
>> >
>> > Over the weekend, I moved the PowerPC to my home, and confirmed Gary's patches
>> > do allow me to boot on my Utah machine. Note, the patch for
>> > drives/char/pc_keyb.c won't apply to 2.2.1, but its a simple matter to adjust
>> > the patch.
>> >
>>
>> I'll re-post these for 2.2.1 later [possibly today], along with a
>> couple of others I have.
>
> Note, I went into the office yesterday, and tried my boot disk with Gary's
> changes on the older PowerStack-1 I have in the office (603, no L2 cache, 48
> meg of non-pairity memory), and it wouldn't boot due to insufficient memory.
> As I mentioned, it does boot fine on my PowerStack-II (Utah, 604e, 128 meg of
> memory, 512K L2 cache).
>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Gary Thomas |
>> email: gdt@linuxppc.org | "Fine wine is a necessity of
>> ... opinions expressed here are mine | life for me"
>> and no one else would claim them! |
>> | Thomas Jefferson
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>
> --
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-12 22:43 Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200) Michael Meissner
1999-01-13 20:10 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-15 15:28 ` Alois Fertl
1999-01-15 20:10 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-15 21:58 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-15 22:04 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-15 23:33 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-18 8:51 ` Alois Fertl
1999-01-16 1:49 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-16 18:54 ` Dan Malek
1999-01-17 18:58 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-18 9:21 ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-01-18 13:01 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-18 16:54 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-18 17:58 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-19 22:43 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-20 0:18 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-20 3:53 ` 3-button mouse Brent H Mundy
1999-01-20 22:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-21 9:34 ` pre8(vger) kills button 3 on 1-button mouse Martin Costabel
1999-01-21 10:05 ` 3-button mouse fritzwe.linux
1999-01-20 15:21 ` Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200) Gary Thomas
1999-01-20 15:31 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-21 23:46 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-22 1:52 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-22 2:04 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-22 7:54 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-22 8:19 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-22 11:07 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-22 15:17 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-02-01 15:58 ` Michael Meissner
1999-02-01 16:18 ` Gary Thomas
1999-02-04 19:09 ` Michael Meissner
1999-02-04 19:21 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
1999-02-04 20:23 ` Michael Meissner
[not found] ` <XFMail.990119102730.gdt@linuxppc.org>
1999-01-19 13:13 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-19 13:28 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-19 18:54 ` Dan Malek
1999-01-20 13:56 ` Loic Prylli
1999-01-18 18:11 ` Dan Malek
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1999-01-16 2:23 Johnnie Peters
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