Re: 2.6.5-pre* does not boot on my PReP PPC

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 07:34:59PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:

> [ cc'ing linuxppc-dev ]
> 
> Sven Hartge wrote:
> | Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> wrote:
> |
> |
> |>>Ok.  Can both of you try the following patch on top of the version
> |>>which fails?
> |
> |
> |>Tried it on top of fresh 2.6.5-rc3, no changes, it still hangs.
> |
> |
> | Same here, still totally dead after tftp.
> 
> not so dead here. 2.6.4 is ok, 2.6.5-rc1|2|3 are loaded within the OF
> menu, but no bootprompt appears. but: i can hear the scsi disk
> initalizing, short after this, the atkbd is recognized and the LEDs on
> my keyboard are flashing. then again my nfs-root is supposed to be
> mounted, but my PReP still locks up completely upon network-init. (last
> working is still 2.5.30).

OK, hmm.  I've got some better ideas then.  It sounds like the code to
have puts show up on VGA isn't selected/compiled in.  Or, there's still
some other problem wrt the OF transition code.  Just having a serial
console selected still doesn't give output however, right?

> another issue here: i was finally able to cross-compile 2.5.x / 2.6.x
> kernels (on x86). i tried to compile kernels from 2.5.21 on with
> "allnoconfig" (was introduced in 2.5.21). only 2.5.30 can be built, all
> other attempts to build "zImage" fail...(still compiling 2.5.6x)...
> (full logs of builds available...)

The simple answer is, don't use allnoconfig :).  Do a 'make
common_defconfig' and then from there turn off stuff you don't need.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/