PPC64 boot failure with 2.6.15

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Fri Jan 27 12:25:44 EST 2006


On Thursday 26 January 2006 00:51, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 January 2006 23:07, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:23, you wrote:
> > > And replace the for loop with for_each_cpu()
> >
> > Thanks for the hint!
> >
> > I can confirm that this fixes the problem.  Patch below.
>
> Grumble.  It looks like I was wrong (I compiled a UP kernel, not an
> SMP one). The change doesn't fix anything; it still has the message:
> mpic: Setting up MPIC " MPIC     " version 1.at fec00000, max 1 CPUs
>
> Looks like that doesn't change anything.
>
> What's the last kernel that has the old (working) OpenPIC code?

Ok, it appears that 2.6.10-rc1 was the last version of the kernel that 
would boot (in SMP mode) on here.

Any hints on what to look at?

Pat
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