Kernel 3.15: Boot problems with a PA6T board

Christian Zigotzky chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
Thu Jun 19 03:42:46 EST 2014


On 18.06.14 17:33, Adrian Cox wrote:
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>> From: "Christian Zigotzky" <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de>
>>>> Christian
>>> But my opinion is, that's normal for the SB600 south bridge to
>>> presents itself as multiple devices on the PCIe bus on x86 PCs. I
>>> see
>>> a lot of PCs with SB600 south bridge on the internet. And the Linux
>>> kernel works with this south bridge. Or is it a powerpc issue?
>>>
> It is a powerpc issue. The SB600 connects to the AMD north bridge in a PC using a mode which is not PCIe compliant, and this makes the SB600 internal units appear as though they are on the root bus of a legacy PC. The powerpc does not have this built-in SB600 support.
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> Adrian
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