Re: last_ipl problem and proposal for poll

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 13:17, Krystian Bac=B3awski wrote:=20
> > > Yes I think you're right. But there is a big problem, I cannot even s=
tart
> > > linux with kernel 2.4 on my amiga. It hangs up after ide setup, and I=
 have
> >=20
> > 2.4.13 works.  anything after doesnt?  yes, this has got me too :-(
> >=20
> > last_ipl[] -2 2 3 -3 2 2 2 2 -3 3
> >=20
> > etc etc is the last two lines you see before nothing else?  yes, same p=
roblem
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> Yep, exactly. I found lines that produce it in arch/ppc/setup.c or
> apus_setup.c. But I don't know much about kernel organisation. Ush. I'll
> have to read a little about it.

I think Roman added this output to aid debugging.


> > some people dont have this issue (I'd like to know detailed desciption
> > of what hardware and PPC firmware they are using). others say it
> > carries on booting after waiting 20 seconds.... it doesnt here... it do=
esnt
> > boot after waiting 10 minutes or more :-|
>=20
> Maybe we should make a poll and ask apus user that use gayle/fastata,
> who suffer from this problem. I propose to ask user:
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> * what turbocard do they have (blizzardppc/cyberstormppc)
> * what version of mainboard do they have (me A1200 rev.2B)
> * what version of kernel they tried to make working
> * whether kernel starts, waits for about 10-20 seconds, or doesn't work
> completely
> * ...
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> Maybe it's hardware specific problem...
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> As far as I know there is possibility to make poll on linux-apus.sf.net
> page. Who is an administrator for this web page ???

Me, Alan and a couple others I think. Alan, do you want to do this? IIRC
you talked about making polls a long time ago...


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast