Linux on G5 Xserve?

[Derek.Fults at gd-ais.com]

Greg,
  I've tried your patch and config file on the 2.6.6 kernel sources, but
still no joy.  I still don't see anything after 'returning from
prom_init"

I was hoping I could gather some information about you environment if
you don't mind.

I'm using yaboot 1.3.11, I'm able to load a kernel using the command,
enet:,vmlinux, but it fails when trying to load a yaboot.conf file.  I
was curious if you're seeing this as well.

Can you tell me what version of binutils and compiler you're using?

Have you changed any environment variables in OF to scca?

Is there anything else that could be different that I'm forgetting?

Thanks
Derek


On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 19:43, Greg Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:12:48AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 02:23, Greg Johnson wrote:
> > > Has anybody been able to boot Linux on the G5 Xserve?  I have been
> > > trying to get it to work for about a week.  I've tried all the available
> > > distribution kernels (mostly 32bit + Gentoo ppc64).  I've also built
> > > some 32bit kernels myself.  In all cases, I get no output after
> > > prom_init finishes.  Here is the output from my latest attempt:
> > >
> > >
> > > Transfer FILE: vmlinux \
> > > TFTP-actual=415572 TFTP-adler32=1d304c5e    Elf32 kernel loaded...
> > > copying OF device tree...done
> > > Calling quiesce ...
> > >
> > > DO-QUIESCE finishedreturning 0x0160000 from prom_init
> >
> > It's known not to boot yet, yes. I haven't had time & access to the HW
> > to make it work yet.
> >
> > Ben.
>
> Actually, I managed to get it working.  I never got anywhere with the 32
> bit kernel, bit I did get the 64bit kernel to work.
>
> linux-2.6.6 from kernel.org boots on my machine with the attached patch
> and config.
>
> I'm still haveing trouble with SMP, though.  I can boot an SMP kernel
> with the 'nosmp' command line option.  Without nosmp, it either says
> processor 1 is stuck or hangs when synchronizing the timebase.
>
> I've had enough for today.  More fun tomorrow. :)
>
> Greg
>

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