Vitaly, Subject and diff says it all: currently ppc_sys BUGs on unknown system ID, which is quite unfriendly.
The following is applied to the 8xx-fixes tree. diff-tree a807b39b11a2fc311d3bbeff2b6f17c31636bb58 (from 94c84a4faa99c5f1ca93f0b9c5ad3df9d57409f8) Author: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo at pegasos.cnet> Date: Wed Oct 26 14:43:30 2005 -0500 ppc32: Make ppc_sys friendly to unknown system ID's diff --git a/arch/ppc/syslib/ppc_sys.c b/arch/ppc/syslib/ppc_sys.c index 52ba0c6..26d7605 100644 --- a/arch/ppc/syslib/ppc_sys.c +++ b/arch/ppc/syslib/ppc_sys.c @@ -85,8 +85,11 @@ static int __init find_chip_by_name_and_ void __init identify_ppc_sys_by_name_and_id(char *name, u32 id) { int i = find_chip_by_name_and_id(name, id); - BUG_ON(i < 0); - cur_ppc_sys_spec = &ppc_sys_specs[i]; + if (i < 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR "ppc_sys: Unable to identify PPC system!\n"); + cur_ppc_sys_spec = NULL; + } else + cur_ppc_sys_spec = &ppc_sys_specs[i]; } /* Update all memory resources by paddr, call before platform_device_register */ @@ -128,7 +131,8 @@ static int __init ppc_sys_init(void) { unsigned int i, dev_id, ret = 0; - BUG_ON(cur_ppc_sys_spec == NULL); + if(cur_ppc_sys_spec == NULL) + return 1; for (i = 0; i < cur_ppc_sys_spec->num_devices; i++) { dev_id = cur_ppc_sys_spec->device_list[i];