2.4.19pre3 boot problem with ext SCSI

This is on a 6500 with an external SCSI (mesh) Yamaha CDRW. With
2.4.19pre3 I fall into the mon debugger during boot as long as the
CDRW is powered on (and no keyboard control, as usual for me with
mon). This does not happen with 2.4.18, both rsynced from
source.mvista.com::linuxppc_2_4. With the CDRW powered off (but still
connected), no boot freeze.

I want to remember someone ranting here about a simple mesh patch
that was again and again being not added to the tree, but I can no
longer find that message. Was thinking it might be my solution. Any
clues as to that patch?


Stefan Jeglinski

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This is on a 6500 with an external SCSI (mesh) Yamaha CDRW. With
2.4.19pre3 I fall into the mon debugger during boot as long as the
CDRW is powered on (and no keyboard control, as usual for me with
mon). This does not happen with 2.4.18, both rsynced from
source.mvista.com::linuxppc_2_4. With the CDRW powered off (but still
connected), no boot freeze.

I want to remember someone ranting here about a simple mesh patch
that was again and again being not added to the tree, but I can no
longer find that message. Was thinking it might be my solution. Any
clues as to that patch?

First, please tell me what you get in the debugger (at least NIP and LR)
that you can lookup in System.map so I know where it dies.

Also, if you use my rsync, you can put the kernel arg. "adb_sync", that
may help having working kbd in xmon.

Ben.


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