2.6.10-rc3 does not boot on PowerMac

Andreas Schwab schwab at suse.de
Wed Dec 8 12:04:03 EST 2004


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

> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:49 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> 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;
>
> In my 2.6.9 snapshot here, in pmac_pci.c :
>
> 	/* Tell pci.c to use the common resource allocation mecanism */
> 	pci_probe_only = 0;

Which is a no-op in 2.6.9.  Remember, we are 64 bit.

>> This has been fixed in rc3 ....
>
> Hrm... what -rc3 ?

See the subject.

Andreas.

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