Re: A3000T: Kernel 2.4.0-test9 working?

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Reinhard Nissl wrote:

> While compiling the kernel, I've seen, that usually empty areas on console
> show word fragments, that were output some time ago, e. g. at boot time.

Sounds like the old 'Permedia2 isn't initialized correctly' bug which can be
worked around by booting AmigaOS or a working kernel before. I thought I had
(at least tried to) fix(ed) it in 2.4 as well...


> After that, I've tried PCI support again. But the kernel fails booting. See
> attached dmesg.txt. Am I right, that a recent X server needs PCI support?

Yes, but only due to a bug which prevents it from working without.


> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 00:01.0
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 3 for Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia
> 2]

Interesting. Geert, I suppose this is your new resource code? Any idea what's
going on?


> Starting kswapd v1.8
> Machine check in kernel mode.
> Caused by (from SRR1=49070): Transfer error ack signal

This is probably when pm2fb tries to probe the PCI device(s), could it be due
to the resource code's failure?


Michel


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