2.6.10-rc3 does not boot on PowerMac

Andreas Schwab schwab at suse.de
Wed Dec 8 11:49:11 EST 2004


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> pci_probe_only should be set to 0 by the pmac_pci.c code, thus causing
> pci_assign_unassigned_resources() to actually be called...

Not really.

arch/ppc64/kernel/pci.c:
unsigned long pci_probe_only = 1;

arch/ppc64/kernel/pmac_pci.c:
extern int pci_probe_only;

This has been fixed in rc3 ....

>  - pci_assign_unassigned_resources() seem to not work properly, that is,
> it moves around things that don't need to be moved thus causing your
> problem when it's actually called.

Probably has always been broken.

Andreas.

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