2.6.10-rc3 does not boot on PowerMac

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 22:24 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org> writes:
> 
> >> The 2.6.10-rc3 kernel does not boot on PowerMac G5, the last thing I see
> >> is "smp_core99_kick_cpu done".  Any idea where I should start looking?
> >
> > At a guess, does backing out this patch help?
> 
> It's actually something completely different.  The system boots all right,
> but there is no framebuffer console at all (X is working fine).  The
> problem seems to be the recent pci cleanups.  The offb driver wants to
> reserve 98004000-98183fff, but there is no matching pci resource.
> 
> 2.6.9:
> 90000000-9fffffff : /pci at 0,f0000000
>   90000000-9001ffff : 0000:f0:10.0
>   91000000-91ffffff : 0000:f0:10.0
>   98000000-9fffffff : 0000:f0:10.0
>     98004000-98183fff : offb
> 
> 2.6.10-rc3:
> 90000000-9fffffff : /pci at 0,f0000000
>   90000000-97ffffff : 0000:f0:10.0
>   98000000-9801ffff : 0000:f0:10.0

That is very strange ... it looks like the video card is beeing remapped
to a different location than where it was initially. Can you send me the
dmesg log ? Is this an nvidia or an ATI card ? Does either rivafb or
radeonfb work ?

Ben.