sporadic kernel panic during boot (MPC8xx, FEC)

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:06:02PM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> On 04/11/2002 05:31 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:23:11AM +0200, Steven Scholz wrote:
> >>
> >> Christian Pellegrin wrote:
> >>
> >> > not really sure this will help you, but I had similar problem (spurious
> >> > hangs during boot/insmod on 823 and 850 MPCs). The ppc mm for 8xx in 2.4
> >> > repository is broken, use that in 2.4-devel that works fine. AFA net
> >> > devices are concerned check that rx start is done in open and not in init
> >> > since linux doesn't like packets before a device is opened.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your reply.
> >>
> >> I got the kernel from the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree using
> >>
> >> bk export ... -rv2.4.18
> >>
> >> So I guess I do have a 2.4-devel. Right?
> >
> >No.  -rv2.4.18 got you 2.4.18 from kernel.org, no PPC changes at all.
> >
> You mean it's identical to linux-2.4.18.tar.gz from kernel.org?

Yes.

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