From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990204140930.A1710@wogglebug.cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:21:34 -0000 (GMT) From: Gary Thomas To: Michael Meissner Subject: Re: Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200) Cc: Johnnie Peters Cc: Johnnie Peters , Alois Fertl , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Dan Malek , Cort Dougan Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> > > -- > Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office) > 4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA > meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax) [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]