LINUXPPC64 Maple fails to boot current git)

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Feb 4 01:47:13 EST 2006


On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:56:01PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > When looking for legacy serial ports, condition poking of "ISA" areas
> > on CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA, rather than CONFIG_ISA as some boards (such
> > as the Maple) have no ISA slots, but do have ISA serial ports.
> 
> Hrm... not sure ISA_DMA has anything to do with that at all.. in fact
> its more like "has legacy devices". I don't remember adding the ifdef
> CONFIG_ISA in the first place, maybe I did... it's a bit dodgy I'd say.
> Indeed, lots of machines have ISA devices (a superIO typically) without
> having ISA slots...

Olaf says that he sent a patch to Andrew, who should be passing it along
if not already, to just remove the #ifdefs there.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/



More information about the Linuxppc64-dev mailing list