Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-14 Thread young dave
2007/3/13, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 01:49 +, young dave wrote: > Hi, > I have tested on my mac mini g4. > > The 2.6.21-rc2 will cause oops like the above post. > > And for the new 2.6.21-rc3-git7 , the kernel load ok, penguin pixmap > appears, but then

Fwd: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-12 Thread young dave
-- Forwarded message -- Hi, I have tested on my mac mini g4. The 2.6.21-rc2 will cause oops like the above post. And for the new 2.6.21-rc3-git7 , the kernel load ok, penguin pixmap appears, but then it stopped, there's no error messages also. Regards dave 2007/3/7, Benjamin

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 17:53 +1300, Paul Collins wrote: > David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:53 +1300, Paul Collins wrote: > >> In case it's of interest, 2.6.20 has been running fine on my > >> PowerBook5,4. > > > > How much memory? What if you boot with mem

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Collins
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:53 +1300, Paul Collins wrote: >> In case it's of interest, 2.6.20 has been running fine on my >> PowerBook5,4. > > How much memory? What if you boot with mem=512M or mem=256M? 1GB. Also works fine when booted with those opti

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-06 Thread francesco foresti
Hi, i'm happy to report that i've been able to boot my ibook without any error, using Ken Moffat's .config (thanks again Ken!) as a base. I'm putting the prominent part here for completeness. I still have no idea what caused these errors, but at least i'll try to find what was compiled with the f

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 14:53 +1300, Paul Collins wrote: > In case it's of interest, 2.6.20 has been running fine on my > PowerBook5,4. How much memory? What if you boot with mem=512M or mem=256M? It works fine on my PowerBook5,3 unless I do that. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread francesco foresti
On Mon, Mar 5 2007 18:14, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:13:41 +0100 francesco foresti wrote: > > Hi, > > i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not > > patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): > > i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, an

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Collins
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:13 +0100, francesco foresti wrote: >> Hi, >> i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not >> patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): >> i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:13 +0100, francesco foresti wrote: > Hi, > i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not > patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): > i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the > second one because the oth

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:59:35PM +0100, francesco foresti wrote: > Hi, > I have to correct myself: > 2.6.19-7 just freezes randomly. At this point, the last surely working kernel > i am aware of is 2.6.18, built from debian sources. Actually i'm trying > (for the very first time) to git-bisect

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:13:41 +0100 francesco foresti wrote: > Hi, > i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not > patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): > i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the > second one because the oth

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread francesco foresti
Hi, I have to correct myself: 2.6.19-7 just freezes randomly. At this point, the last surely working kernel i am aware of is 2.6.18, built from debian sources. Actually i'm trying (for the very first time) to git-bisect Linus' tree, to see if i can figure out something, but i feel my chances are

PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

2007-03-05 Thread francesco foresti
Hi, i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the second one because the other slips offscreen before i can see what's going on. However, this is