On 3/8/07, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:18:43 -0500 > On 3/7/07, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Gentoo seems to be carrying this patch: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&m=110314220200915&w=2 > > > > I'm going to try and see if that is indeed what fixes the issue. If > > so perhaps it should go upstream? > > > > FWIW, this patch got 2.6.17 vanilla booting for us. I hope that > helping in tracking things down in the newer kernels. It doesn't at all. That patch modifies prom_gettree() which won't be called until long after the machine boots up and /proc/openprom is mounted. We're getting nowhere, we have patches to code that doesn't run during bootup fixing the bootup, printk() statements that don't actually print out anything, etc. This is turning in a waste of time and I'm only going to be able to fix this with physical access to an v880 machine that exhibits the problem instead of going back and forth like this every day.
Thanks for all your help with this. I wish I could send you a v880. If there's anything else you or anyone else would like me to try let me know. One last thing, I noticed this message when I create the aout version of the kernel: PT 0 Entry: Loadable to 0x400000[0x39e918] from 0x0[0x32b788] align 0x100000 PT 1 Entry: unknown perhaps the additional size added by that patch changes something that makes it happy when loading? If I figure out anything new I'll let you know. Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
