On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:27:52PM +0200, Martin Loschwitz wrote: > Package: kernel > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hello, > > I am writing this mail after having talked with Benjamin Herrenschmidt. > In Linux 2.6 kernels, there is a problem with some certain PowerPC boxen > which will panic immediately after boot. I observers this beahviour with > a PowerPC OldWorld from Apple (601 CPU, I think it's a "Power Macintosh > 8200" or something). The root of all evil is a patch sent in by SUSE and > Benjamin provided me with a patch. It would make sense to apply it since > any 2.6 kernel will refuse to boot on machines like that without it. The > patch is attached. Thanks.
Thanks for the report. I commited the fix, and it will be part of the 2.6.8-2 powerpc kernel upload. Friendly, Sven Luther
