Brian Stephenson wrote:
>
>
> But! the kernel stalls at this point:
> ...
> mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
> PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:00.1
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> looking at the dmesg for the 2.4-test12 bzImage kernel on the
> same machine with normal BIOS
> ...
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
> ...
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try using
> pci=biosirq.
> SIS5513: chipset revision 208
> SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> SiS630
> SIS5513: LINUXBIOS, so Jammed the enable on!
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> SIS5513: LINUXBIOS, so Jammed the enable on!
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> jamming drive present for hda
> hda: WDC AC2420H, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ide0 is assigned irq 14 in normal BIOS
> ide0 is assigned irq 5 in linuxBIOS and stalls for some reason
> I'm not really interested in the ide anyway, just testing the board.
> but because its in the PCI configuration it seems to be a bit of a
> problem, has anybody had 2.4-test12 up on a Matsonic board at
> all, it might be a motherboard specific problem' might have to
> mimick normal BIOS PCI routing??
>
This is due to a FATAL bug in the original test12 patch. please cvs update
the kernel-patch. If the new patch does not work please boot the system with
NORMAL BIOS and "dd /dev/mem skip=0xf0000 count=128" then send it to me.
Ollie
