On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:08, Barry Hawkins wrote: > List, > I have been trying to get a 2.4.23(pre5_benh?) kernel up and running > on a PowerBook G4 17". Currently I can get through the following steps > without issue:
Is this a first rev (nVidia based) 17" albook ? If yes, then there is a problem with the cache coherency and the L3 on this model that I haven't had a chance to figure out. Booting with "nol3" should help. (Actually, you may experience all sort of data corruption without this option, OHCI crashing beeing just one trigger) Ben. > make clean > make menuconfig > make dep > make-kpkg --revision benh.1 kernel-image > cd ..; dpkg -i *.deb > > However, upon reboot, I always see something along the following lines: > > input3: ADB HID on ID 3:3.01 > adb: finished probe task... > INIT: version 2.85 bootlog > hub.c: new USB device 10:1a.0-1, assigned address 2 > usb.c: USB device not responding, giving up (error=-32) > Starting Bootlog daemon: hub.c: new USB device 10:1a.0-1, assigned > address 3 > > This is the most informative of the specimens I have seen. Usually, > the hang occurs right after the line that starts "hub.c:". I have > tried paring down the kernel config USB support to nothing more than > OHCI, and I have tried adding things back, but I have yet to figure it > out. An attempt to match the PowerBook G4 12" kernel config at > http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php > didn't work out for me, either. (I know, there are some hardware > differences, but I was running out of ideas) I have compiled about 8 > or 9 times today, so I gave it a good try, but I am mostly doing > guesswork. > So, if anyone has any suggestions, or even better if you already have > a great kernel config file for a 17" PowerBook G4 1GHz, feel free to > share. > > Thanks, > -- > Barry C. Hawkins > All Things Computed > site: www.allthingscomputed.com > weblog: www.yepthatsme.com -- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
