On 2011-04-17 05:16, Hugh Dickins wrote:

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:25 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

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Something worth trying: turn off CONFIG_IDE.  That's what I need to
boot 2.6.39-rc[1-3] on PowerPC G5.

I know Jens has been fixing problems with IDE versus his plug/unplug
changes, but it's still not fixed for me in rc3.

In other mail http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/14/614
I see Linus recommending his post-rc3 commit 6631e635c65d
but I've not tried that myself yet.

Well, the disk is SATA so it's CONFIG_ATA/libata, which works fine here,
unless you somewhat replaced your CD-ROM with a legacy IDE disk :-) Or
maybe the problem is related to the CD-ROM drive. There's a libata
driver for it nowadays, so you can use PATA_MACIO instead of IDE_PMAC

Thanks for that, Ben: I remember you were brewing up such a driver,
but I missed when it actually went in.  I can confirm that switching
off CONFIG_IDE and switching on CONFIG_PATA_MACIO and
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR now gives me a booting system with a working CD-ROM
(though I've not yet tried burning).

Whereas CONFIG_IDE=y with current git still does not boot: hangs for a
minute or three around the windfarm announcements, then an endless
splurge of hda error messages - sorry, I'm not being helpful, other
worries...

It's the media event notification that goes crazy. Try and comment out
this line:

	drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_MEDIA_CHANGED;

in drivers/ide/ide-cd.c:cdrom_saw_media_change() and see if it boots.

-- 
Jens Axboe