MVME5100: kernel hangs in dcache_init

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Matt Porter wrote:

>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:45:49PM +0100, Stefano Coluccini wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >   I'm trying to run Debian linux 2.2.18 on a MVME5100 board. I've done some
> > change:
> >  - changed addresses of UART registers in arch/ppc/boot/ns16550.h
> >  - changed BAT settings in arch/ppc/mm/init.c to map IO region 0xf0000000 to
> > 0xffffffff
> > and some other things.
> > Now the kernel hangs in the dcache_init routine in init/main.c and it seems
> > to me that the problem is related to memory management, but I'm not sure.
> > If I comment out the the routine calls from dcache_init to check_bugs(), the
> > kernel go on a little showing me some infos about PCI devices.
> >
> > Anyone of you can help me ?
>
> Did you make sure it's getting the correct memory size?  Assuming you're
> trying to port into the existing prep_* framework, it does use residual
> data to determine memory size.  That used to be reasonable but the
> newer MCG boards are not providing any useful information in
> residual data, I'd imagine this is also the case with the 5100.  That's
> why the new MCG ports in the development tree no longer rely on residual
> data.

Don't tell me that the residual data can no moree be used even for this !
So ok, residual data is 100% useless and should be thrown away. At least I
expected this kind of basic information to be available.

At this point, let us get rid of PPCBUG and flash our firmware !

	Regards,
	Gabriel.


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