long-term 7600-booting patch

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Thomas Capricelli wrote:
> 	I've reported this problem many times to linuxppc support,  Paul
> Mackerras and some others.
> 
> 	Since may 1999, my kernel won't boot UNTIL I applied a patch I have
> available to anyone who wish.
> 
> 	The problem (well known) is with the first (internal) SCSI not syncing
> at boot time.
> 
> 	As my 2.1.125 kernel from linuxppc R4 was always fine but I need to
> boot new kernels, I've made this patch. Not that I understand a lot of what
> i've done, mainly backporting the mesh code from 2.1.125.
> 
> 	At least, my mac now always BOOT. Before applying this patch, I had to
> try between 6 and 16 times to boot my computer. You DON'T know how tiring this
> is

Can you please try a 2.3.x kernel? I suffered from a similar problem and it was
solved in 2.3.x.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert at linux-m68k.org

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