From: "Ed Sweetman" <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
To: "Lukas Geyer" <geyer@ml.kva.se>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:24:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002c01c19ea1$ea0c9160$0501a8c0@psuedogod> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201161417540.6868-100000@cauchy.ml.kva.se>
> Hi,
>
> I am very glad that the PPC patches are now merged so I can use a
> mainstream kernel again on my iBook. Thanks to all the people who did
> this. It works quite fine so far but there are two minor problems:
>
> - The kernel ignores the boot parameter hdb=ide-scsi, it probes hdb anyway
> and loads the ATAPI CD-ROM driver. The problem may be (I am really not
> familiar with the kernel internals) the function pmac_ide_probe() in
> drivers/ide/ide-pmac.c which does not check for any kernel boot
> parameters at all.
This has beed changed for some time now. You need to pass some ignore
argument to the ide-cdrom driver and load it first then load the ide-scsi
which will detect any remaining atapi devices. I could give you the exact
line if my system wasn't dead at the moment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-16 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-16 13:47 Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC Lukas Geyer
2002-01-16 15:24 ` Ed Sweetman [this message]
2002-01-16 18:56 ` Lukas Geyer
2002-01-16 16:37 ` benh
2002-01-16 16:55 ` Automatic reboot on PPC (was: Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC) Thomas Capricelli
2002-01-16 17:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-01-16 17:05 ` Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC Tom Rini
2002-01-16 17:10 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 17:31 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-16 17:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 17:54 ` Tom Rini
2002-01-17 0:08 ` Horst von Brand
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