Hi sparcers,
since last official debian kernel running on my SunBlade100 is
2.6.21-2, today I investigated what is going wrong in 2.6.22 and
2.6.23. Both kernels hang at boot with and without the video=atyfb:off
parameter.

A -p output of 2.6.23 follows, it seems that while scanning the PCI
bus devices get added multiple times. For the record 0000:00:03.0 is
the PMU and 07.0 is the ISA bridge.

Any ideas?

Regards,

L

Boot device: disk2 File and args:
SILO Version 1.4.13
boot: Linux video=atyfb:off -p
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.6.23
Loading initial...

Luigi Gangitano wrote:

Hi,

I am running on SunBlade100 with 2.6.23-rc4 that I built from the
upstream sources (not debian) as I found that does not need any boot
parameters. Some earlier versions I think had errors if a firewire
device is plugged in.

jim@sun:~$ uname -a
Linux sun 2.6.23-rc4 #1 Sun Sep 2 09:33:06 EST 2007 sparc64 GNU/Linux

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Luigi Gangitano schrieb:

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:19:17PM +0100, Luigi Gangitano wrote:

I vaguely recall seeing fixes for these kinds of things in the kernel
changelogs - post that to sparclinux@vger so the kernel people see it.