yaboot-1.3.17 failure on 9114-275 (power4+)

[Tony Breeds]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:47:23PM +0100, acrux wrote:
 
> i did, some days ago,  a quick update on IBM 9114-275 (Intellistation
> POWER 275) 1.45Ghz 2/way with latest firmware.
> It was unable to load the kernel but old 1.3.16 worked fine. Again,
> same 1.3.17 binaries worked fine on 9123-710 (POWER5).

Can you describe the problem a little better?  Was yaboot able to locate
the kernel image on disk?  Was it able to parse the ELF headers?  Did it
fail to load the ELF into memory?
 
> I cannot do further test, on that box,  in the next future to
> investigate about... thus i'd like to know if somebody got the same
> problem.

I haven't seen any problems on the power4's I've tried.  If you get some
time can you compile up a DEBUG=1 yaboot and try again?
 
> Btw, i also report a proper boot with 1.3.17 on iBookG4,
> YDL_Powerstation, XServeG4DP1.33, OpenPOWER710.

Great!

Yours Tony
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