Going from 2.2.12 to 2.2.17pre10

[Michael Lundkvist]

Hi!

I'm trying to go from 2.2.12 to 2.2.17pre10 on an MVME 2400.

A few problems:

The Motorola SROM bug-patch lacks one row in de4x5.c:

--- de4x5.c~    Thu Jul  6 16:01:32 2000
+++ de4x5.c     Thu Jul  6 16:14:18 2000
@@ -4829,6 +4829,7 @@
     } else if ((lp->media == INIT) && (lp->timeout < 0)) {
         lp->ibn = 3;
        lp->active = *p;
+       if (MOTO_SROM_BUG) lp->active = 0;
        lp->infoblock_csr6 = OMR_MII_100;
        lp->useMII = TRUE;
        lp->infoblock_media = ANS;

This one was easy. Now for the hard one. :)

I'm using a PMC-harddisk based on the CMD-646 chipset (Ramix 233).

I installed my system under 2.2.12 with Debian.

When I come to the partition check in 2.2.17pre10 it fails with
"hda: unknown partition table"

I added a printout in drivers/block/genhd.c in msdos_partition()

--- genhd.c~    Thu Jul  6 16:01:31 2000
+++ genhd.c     Thu Jul  6 16:48:02 2000
@@ -522,7 +522,8 @@
 #endif
        if (*(unsigned short *)  (0x1fe + data) != cpu_to_le16(MSDOS_LABEL_MAGIC)) {
                brelse(bh);
-               return 0;
+               printk("Data: %x LABEL:%x\n",(*(unsigned short *)  (0x1fe + data)), cpu_to_le16(MSDOS_LABEL_MAGIC) );
+               return 0;
        }
        p = (struct partition *) (0x1be + data);


With this I get the following printout:
hda:Data: aa55 LABEL:55aa

So it seems like the byte order is wrong. Does anyone know why this
happens?

Please don't tell me my 2.2.12 partitioned disk is wrong. :)

Where do I go for the best LinuxPPC 2.4 kernel for MVME-boards? Is it
fsmlabs Bitkeeper repository?

/Micke

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