On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote: > My PowerBook G4 Aluminum with a 32-bit PPC processor fails to boot for the > 4.4-git series. The problem was bisected to commit 21266be. It took a while > to figure out why a commit that only rearranges the Kconfig files could > cause the problem. > > The answer came when I read the commit message for 90a545e98126 and saw that > "Recompiling with CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=n" might be necessary. After I > made that change, the system boots. > > If it is the graphics hardware driver at fault, the VGA controller is listed > as an ATI RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] with PCI ID 1002:4350. It uses > radeon as the driver. > > I'm not sure if this is a bug in the configuration, but I know that > selecting the default answer to all the new configuration parameters leaves > me with a machine that is unbootable.
I agree that the default configuration should remain bootable. I'll send a change that does not force that default. Thanks for the report and sorry for the inconvenience.
