whacked out 2.2.18preX - last gasp

[Stefan Jeglinski]

>  >	ERROR - Attempting to write value for
>>	unconfigured variable (CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE).
>>
>>  when using make xconfig. I can't see how this could be related,
>>but it is true.
>
>xconfig is buggy sometimes.  Try make oldconfig afterwards, it'll prompt for
>anything which didn't get set by xconfig.

Yeah, that's why I don't see that my observations can be related to
this. I also tried make oldconfig and it lead to the same results.


>  > It's frankly hard at this point to buy that one of my PCI devices is
>>  walking over the kernel. Or if it is, it looks like the end of the
>>  Linux line for my PowerTowerPro with the 2940 card. I think this is
>>  either a bug in the aic7xxx driver that has been exposed by 2.2.18
>>  changes (highly doubtful, there are too many 2940s out there for it
>>  to have been missed), or a linux-pmac bug. I just don't know enough
>>  yet to prove it, much less find it.
>
>Hmm.  2.2.18pre21 from linuxppc_2_2 bk works on my G4/Yikes! with a 2940UW
>in it.  What compiler are you using?

dmesg:

	gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release/franzo) #1

rpm -qa |grep gcc:

	gcc-2.95.2-1i
	gcc-c++-2.95.2-1i
	gcc-objc-2.95.2-1i


What I'm worried about mainly is the 6 slots and the PCI bridge
structure in the PowerTowerPro (akin to PowerMac 9500). It is more
"complex" than G4, no? From my previous discussion with you and
others, I gather that there are a lot of problems with the PCI stuff,
that may not be cleared up for quite a while?


Stefan Jeglinski

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