Re: [FYI] linux 2.6 still not working with PReP (ppc32)
From: Sebastian Heutling <hidden>
Date: 2004-12-31 15:01:15
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:55 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:47:05AM +0100, Christian wrote:quoted
Marc Dietrich schrieb:quoted
Hi all, I read this thread about booting a PowerStack with newer kernels. Motivated by this, I tried to compile a 2.6.10 kernel on my machine (with sym53c825a onboard). Sadly, the scsi controller always timeouts during initialisation. II also have some strange issues with network support using the standard debian 2.6.8 kernel. ifconfig upping the decchip ethernet on the powerstack freezes the kernel, and i hear reports of problems on IBM PReP hardware too with not working ethernet, altough there is no freeze. Any idea on this ?
Does it contain the IRQ patch? Where does it boot from SCSI or net? What PCI-Devices are installed? I use an older patched 2.6.8 debian kernel. It works fine here except that I can't insert the eepro100 module via /etc/modules on boot because some times it crashes on module insertion (or on ifconfig via init script - I don't remember exactly) and sometimes not. Therefore I do it by hand after boot up. Sebastian Heutling