From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932251AbWG3KmK (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:42:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932255AbWG3KmK (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:42:10 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:57502 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932251AbWG3KmJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:42:09 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: Trying to get my shiny new G5 (quad 2.5GHz) to boot under Linux Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:41:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , LKML Kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607301241.27053.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 30 July 2006 04:06, Kyle Moffett wrote: > I just bought a brand new absolute-bleeding-edge Quad 2.5GHz G5 (it's > actually dual-proc dual-core, but that's marketing for you) and I'm > trying to find a kernel that will boot the system. Well actually I'm > _trying_ to install Debian but I have yet to even get to mounting the > initramfs. Here's a list of the kernels I've tried: > > Debian-Installer beta2 (I think this is 2.6.15?) > Debian 2.6.16-1-powerpc64 > Debian 2.6.17-1-powerpc64 > Custom 2.6.18-rc2+git (64821324ca49f24be1a66f2f432108f96a24e596) > > The first two Debian kernels didn't get past "Setup Arch" in the > OpenFirmware text console; they just hung with black text on a white > screen and spun the fans up to full blast after a few seconds. I > _think_ they were missing a PowerMac dual-core fix of some kind that > went into 2.6.17, although my googling wasn't terribly informative. > The third debian kernel got into driver init code and failed when the > i8250 serial driver claimed some resource and broke the zilog serial > driver. I couldn't figure out if a fix for this ever made it into > the latest kernel, so I built a custom kernel for my G5 from my older > G4 (ARCH=powerpc). This kernel dies in the SMU code with the > following panic (WARNING: Typed by hand from the console, so there > may be small typos). My .config is attached. > > If you have gotten Linux to boot on the Quad G5; I'd really > appreciate it if you could send me a working .config (or even better, > a working vmlinux image). Thanks for all your help! Here we go. This is a 2.6.18-rc2 kernel (well, some git snapshot from about a week ago). It works fine on my 2.5Ghz Quad. .config: http://bu3sch.de/misc/config-g5.gz vmlinux.strip: http://bu3sch.de/misc/linux-g5.gz -- Greetings Michael.