2.4.20-ben8 vmlinux.coff CLAIM error on PowerMac 4400

[mikpe at csd.uu.se]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
 > On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 18:08, mikpe at csd.uu.se wrote:
 > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
 > >  > what are the respective sizes of the working 2.4.6 kernel
 > >  > and my non working 2.4.20 ? Can you try to shrink the 2.4.20
 > >  > down to the 2.4.6 size (removing drivers etc...) and see if
 > >  > that helps ?
 > >
 > > I doubt it's a size problem. My 2.4.20 vmlinux.coff was about 700K,
 > > since I only included the drivers and file systems I actually use.
 > > Olaf's 2.4.6 vmlinux.coff that booted fine is 1.3M.
 >
 > Ok, good to know. Right now I have no exact clue but I suggest
 > you try changing the .coff wrapper in arch/ppc/boot of 2.4.20
 > to what it was in 2.4.18 and tell me if that helps.

vmlinux.coff built from 2.4.18, both vanilla and with Olaf's patch in
http://penguinppc.org/~olaf/2.4.18/01_linux-2.4.18-rc4-lxppc_devel-0.diff.gz,
boots Ok. However, 2.4.18 has the "excessively slow swim3 floppy writes"
problem I mentioned earlier that 2.2.24 doesn't have.

I also tried 2.4.20-ben8 with coffmain.c from 2.4.18 as you suggested,
but it got the same CLAIM error as before. (hack-coff.c was unchanged
and I didn't find anything else coff-related.)

/Mikael

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