From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Matt Porter Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: LinuxPPC on an MVME2307 Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Michael Lundkvist Date: 16 Mar 1999 23:17:10 +0100 Message-ID: Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi! I'm trying to get LinuxPPC running on an MVME2307 board and I have heard that you have tried to get it to run on similar boards. I have been able to get it to work on MVME2306 and MVME2600 boards but so far I haven't had any luck on the MVME2307. So far I have tried a stock 2.2.1 kernel with Gabriel Pauberts patches and a kernel from vger CVS (dated 990316). The vger kernel never gives me any output and I haven't tried to debug it any further yet. It works on an MVME2600 board. With Gabriels kernel I was able to boot but it crashed when initializing the DEC21143 chip. I chased this down do what I think is a bug in the driver. It tries to do del_timer() on a timer that never has been added. I fixed that and the kernel booted, but I got no response from the network. The de4x5-driver had allocated IRQ 10 for the chip and as I dug a bit further into this I found a difference in the residual data between the 2306 and the 2307 card. For the MVME2307 the information about interupt mapping (PCIInfoPack.Map[]) is one entry shorter and it doesn't contain any information about the 21143. For both the MVME2306 and the MVME2600 it contains information that maps it to IRQ 18. Do you have any more information on this? Is there anything more I can do? I'm afraid that I don't know all that much about the PReP architecture or kernel development, but I'll try do to whatever I can. :) /Micke -- Michael Lundkvist Epact Technology AB ml@epact.se [[ 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. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]