Re: CVS Update: 2.3 (branch: trunk)

[Rene B. <re...@we...>]

Hi, Ken!


On 2002.08.13 23:04 Ken Tyler wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Rene Brothuhn wrote:
> 
> > On 2002.08.13 00:26 Ken Tyler wrote:
> 
> > Can you describe what happens before the machine hangs?
> 
> Everything appears to be working perfectly, then stops dead, cursor stops
> flashing, no heartbeat LED, no magic sysrequest, no kb.
> 
> > Realy odd. As I said, I copied my system (approx. 1.3GB) to the UW
> drive
> > and booted from it whithout any problem.
> > The mean difference I see is that Giorgio and I using the Permedia card
> > and you not. Maybe there is something with the PCI stuff in the driver.
> > Can you send me the compiler warnings you get when the 53c770 is
> compiled?
> 
> I don't have any PCI enabled.


I have made some tests this weekend, just to see if the SCSI-deadlocks has 
something todo with the PCI stuff. I have compiled a kernel without PCI, 
have removed my Permedia card and used a RetinaZ3 instead (borrowed from a 
friend). I could not notice any problem (except the CD-ROM problem) when 
using UW-SCSI.

So maybe the problem lies somewhere in your configuration. Maybe you are 
using old CS-PPC firmware and/or old ppc.library/680x0.library. Because 
I'm wondering why you must use ElfLoadSeg in startup-sequence to load the 
ppc.library and starting linux. This is not necessary on my machine, if I 
start linux with a simple startup-squence. Also you should use PPCInstall 
to load the ppc.library instead of ElfLoadSeg.
As far as I know, you can find the latest ppc/flash stuff under:

ftp://ftp.meanmachine.ch/pub/amiga/ppclib/


I hope this will help...


Ciao, Renè