[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3 experimental patches updated

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Gerhard Stenzel wrote:
> > They were meant for Paul's powerpc.git on that date (cfr. the comment at 
> the
> > top of the series file).
> > 
> > But if you remove the first two (USB-related) patches from the series 
> file,
> > they apply to 2.6.20-rc4, too.
> 
> Thanks ..  that helped to patch 2.6.20-rc4
> 
> Next problem: dtc was missing. Installed the latest from 
> http://dtc.ozlabs.org/ .. Now the kernel compiled
> 
> Copied vmlinux to /boot, run "make modules_install", run mkinitrd, created 
> a new entry for the new kernel in /etc/kboot.conf.
> 
> When rebooting, I can select the new entry from kboot, the new kernel 
> seems to start booting (4 or 5 lines of text) but seems to hang when 
> trying to initialize the framebuffer. Rebooting in the old kernel works 
> fine.
> 
> Anything obvious I am doing wrong?

The provided defconfig has a bogus CONFIG_CMDLINE. Please try removing
`video=ps3fb:mode:12 console=lcons0'.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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