Re: PPC & 2.6.0-test3: wrong mem size & hang on ifconfig

Tom Rini
2003-10-13T16:02:26Z

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:20:56PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > > 1. Network interface is detected correctly but first ifconfig command
> > > (even if it fails because of wrong arguments) hangs the machine. This is
> > > with both tulip driver (new io+mmio or mmio or just plain pio, 3 modes
> > > tried) and de4x5 driver (the card is a onboard 21140).
> > >
> > > 2. 2.4 detects full 64M of RAM, 2.6 detects only 32M of RAM.
> >
> > Interesting. Can you try the linuxppc_2_4_devel
> > (http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml) tree and let me know if that
> > finds 32mb or 64mb of RAM?
>
> Yesterday I got the machine back from production use and tried to
> compile it. It did not compile for my configuration. I also tried
> 2.6.0-test6 that I had cheked out, it made no difference, still only 32M
> RAM and hang on ifconfig eth0 up.
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mroos/compile/linuxppc_2_4_devel/arch/ppc/mm'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/mroos/compile/linuxppc_2_4_devel/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I/home/mroos/compile/linuxppc_2_4_devel/arch/ppc -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=init -c -o init.o init.c
> init.c:47:22: mmu_decl.h: No such file or directory

That's not right. Did you do a 'bk -r get -q' or equivalent? Or is
this the rsync version?

> Here is my .config for linuxppc-2.4-devel:

Works for me.