Re: Troubles booting sparc64 SMP 2.4.18 kernel

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:30:54 -0800 (PST)
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

>    From: Erik de Castro Lopo <nospam@mega-nerd.com>
>    Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:59:21 +1100
> 
>        qlogicfc0 : new isp2x00 revision ID (4)
>        qlogicfc0 : link is not up
>    
>    I am now going to try and disable fiber channel support and see if
>    I can get it any further.
> 
> It could definitely be the problem.  

The other weird thing is that even though I have disabled "Fibre Channel 
support" and "Fusion MPT device support" in make menuconfig and did a make
clean before doing make dep, I still get this qlogicfc0 device in the
boot messages. I have even made sure that I deleted al qlogic* drivers
in the /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre3 tree.

To prevent this driver from being compiled into the kernel I had to copy 
the .config file out, do "make mrproper", copy the .config file back in,
make oldconfig and then "make dep" etc.

The upshot of all this is that I do finnaly have this machine booting a
SMP Sparc64 kernel :-) although IDE, PPOE, USB and fiber channel are 
disabled. I can start doing the work on this machine that i was hoping 
to do :->.

BTW, this device:

   00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2100 64-bit Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 04)

is indeed a plugin PCI card. I just asked someone to have a look at the
back end of the machine :-).

Here's the "/usr/sbin/prtconf -pv" (hey I thought that was a Solaris 
command ???) output:

    https://mega-nerd.net/prtconf-pv.txt


Erik
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