Hello, after sucess with 3.17.x kernels (x>3 still to be tested) vanilla 3.18 fail with V880 internal fc controller firmware init - see below. It drops then into an initramfs shell. Greetings Hermann [ 62.156575] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 62.201834] sungem.c:v1.0 David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> [ 62.304598] sym0: <875> rev 0x4 at pci 0000:00:01.0 irq 6 [ 62.379582] qla2xxx [0000:00:00.0]-0005: : QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.07.00.16-k. [ 62.571122] sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking [ 62.649898] sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. [ 62.697931] scsi host0: sym-2.2.3 [ 62.774210] gem 0001:00:01.0 eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:08:d9:25 [ 62.874619] qla2xxx [0001:00:02.0]-001d: : Found an ISP2200 irq 10 iobase 0x000007fd00400000. [ 62.977938] gem 0002:00:01.1 eth1: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:08:d9:24 [ 63.094423] qla2xxx [0001:00:02.0]-0050:1: No matching ROM signature. [ 63.266177] qla2xxx [0001:00:02.0]-0064:1: Inconsistent NVRAM detected: checksum=0x0 id=� version=0xff. [ 63.377728] qla2xxx [0001:00:02.0]-0065:1: Falling back to functioning (yet invalid -- WWPN) defaults. [ 63.489177] qla2xxx [0001:00:02.0]-0069:1: NVRAM configuration failed. [ 67.481656] scsi 0:0:6:0: CD-ROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1401 1009 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 67.577774] scsi target0:0:6: Beginning Domain Validation [ 67.654254] scsi target0:0:6: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 16) [ 67.745192] scsi target0:0:6: Domain Validation skipping write tests [ 67.820352] scsi target0:0:6: Ending Domain Validation [ 70.292139] sr 0:0:6:0: [sr0] out of memory. [ 70.342341] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 70.413641] sr 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 [ 74.360439] qla2xxx [0001:00:02.0]-00d2:1: Init Firmware **** FAILED ****. [ 74.441843] qla2xxx [0001:00:02.0]-00d6:1: Failed to initialize adapter - Adapter flags 2. -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-8236 Fax: -5224 Email: Hermann.Lauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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