[regression] 2.6.39-rc[1-3] fail to boot on G5 PowerMac

[Hugh Dickins]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Jens Axboe <jaxboe at fusionio.com> wrote:
> On 2011-04-17 05:16, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:25 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Something worth trying: turn off CONFIG_IDE.  That's what I need to
>>>> boot 2.6.39-rc[1-3] on PowerPC G5.
>>>>
>>>> I know Jens has been fixing problems with IDE versus his plug/unplug
>>>> changes, but it's still not fixed for me in rc3.
>>>>
>>>> In other mail http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/14/614
>>>> I see Linus recommending his post-rc3 commit 6631e635c65d
>>>> but I've not tried that myself yet.
>>>
>>> Well, the disk is SATA so it's CONFIG_ATA/libata, which works fine here,
>>> unless you somewhat replaced your CD-ROM with a legacy IDE disk :-) Or
>>> maybe the problem is related to the CD-ROM drive. There's a libata
>>> driver for it nowadays, so you can use PATA_MACIO instead of IDE_PMAC
>>
>> Thanks for that, Ben: I remember you were brewing up such a driver,
>> but I missed when it actually went in.  I can confirm that switching
>> off CONFIG_IDE and switching on CONFIG_PATA_MACIO and
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR now gives me a booting system with a working CD-ROM
>> (though I've not yet tried burning).
>>
>> Whereas CONFIG_IDE=y with current git still does not boot: hangs for a
>> minute or three around the windfarm announcements, then an endless
>> splurge of hda error messages - sorry, I'm not being helpful, other
>> worries...
>
> It's the media event notification that goes crazy. Try and comment out
> this line:
>
>        drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_MEDIA_CHANGED;
>
> in drivers/ide/ide-cd.c:cdrom_saw_media_change() and see if it boots.

Yes, that also boots, with a working CD-ROM: thanks.

Hugh