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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:44:20 +1100 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.28-git12: "powerpc/pci: Reserve legacy regions on PCI" broke my G3 On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:46 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > The 2.6.29-rc kernels hang during boot on my PowerMac G3 (Beige). > The last messages I see on the console are > > Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=8192 > irq: Found primary Apple PIC /pci/mac-io for 64 irqs > irq: System has 64 possible interrupts > > and then it hangs until I reboot it. Unfortunately I don't have a serial cable > compatible with the G3's serial port so I can't set up a serial console. > > Eventually I narrowed the cause down to "powerpc/pci: Reserve legacy regions on PCI" > (commit c1f343028d35ba4e88cd4a3c44e0d8b8a84264ee) in 2.6.28-git12. Reverting that > from 2.6.29-rc2 results in a kernel that boots ok and works reliably. > > The problem seems system specific as both my G5 and my G4 had no problems at all > with 2.6.29-rc1. Thanks, I'll try to narrow it down, but it will take a week or so as I'm away attending LCA. I think I have one of these Beige G3's in the office somewhere.... Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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