Re: 2.2.17pre9-ben1 gmac problems on iBook

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

quoted

after some problems with linuxcare.com.au's current kernel I was glad to
see your
announcement.
But your new gmac driver still has the same problem for me:

Once the card is activated (and a network cable plugged in) the machine
tells me
  eth0: Duplicate entry of the interrupt handler !
six or seven times and then goes into kernel debugger (which simply
garbages my
screen)

Hardware:
iBook 300MHz, 192MB, ATI Rage 3D Mobility AGPx2 (or so) [4c4e], BootX

Christof

PS: I have never been able to boot any 2.3+ kernels since I get a bunch of
DMA timeouts. Perhaps the kernel arguments?
   ide0=noautotune idebus=66
Though I tried some variants (empty line and more) last time without any
success.
What changed, though, is that it can read my partition table (around
March, 10th?
the 2.3.x kernel wasn't able to do that)

Which bootloader are you using ? I suspect you are using BootX. The
kernel is not reliable when using it, you should be using yaboot.

Ben.

You're right.
Strange though that BootX gives this kind of weird behaviour (2.2.15pre14
works fine for me).
I'll report about yaboot soon.

Christof


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