On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:41:51PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:37:09PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad > Sven> wrote: > > >> Actually I'm having the same problem that Paul reported, > >> except on a PowerMac 7,3 (970FX). The boot fails at the exact > >> same point. I can try benh's suggestion but it will take some > >> time (need to install the biarch toolchain and recompile > >> kernel), and it was more about isolating the place where the > >> fault happens, right? > > Sven> Yes, please do, the biarch toolchain is in sid, so you just > Sven> have to install those, and you probably want to do this > Sven> anyway. > > Hi Sven, > > I rebuilt a ppc64 kernel with the Debian source package with exactly > the same config as 2.6.12-1-powerpc64 from sid. > > I turned on the udbg console for pmac in setup.c as benh suggested. I > basically turned on debug in all the files in arch/ppc64/kernel and > the kernel still seems to halt at the same point with the following > output towards the end (copied by hand) > > <quote> > time_init: decrementer frequency 33.333333 Mhz > -> set_preferred_console() > stdoout is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f0000000/NVDA,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/NVDA,[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > No preferred console found! > smp_core99_probe > smp_core99_kick_cpu > smp_core99_kick_cpu done > smp_core99_setup_cup 0 done > > 2.6.12-ppc64 > </quote> > > (the -ppc64 suffix is what I passed to make-kpkg, probably a bad > choice but....). > > I've not had time to determine if this console message from setup.c is > important, and I don't have the knowledge to know on sight (though it > certainly sounds like a problem)! But that seems to be the only > additional debug traces that seem relevant. As far as I can tell the > last line is coming from the pseries set up code where it prints out > UTS_RELEASE.
Mmm, i will let benh comment again, he is the expert on this, CCed to him even. > Any ideas? I can continue on this on the weekend if you can suggest a > way forward (had one too many Friday night beers to keep going right > now ;-) > > Finally, do you want to merge this bug with #319986? It does seem like > they are both the same even though the machines are slightly > different. Already done, i think. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
