Dan Malek <dan at netx4.com> writes:
> Robin O'Leary wrote:
>
>
> > .... Although I have now
> > coaxed 2.3.18 as far as trying to load the initrd, it has been an uphill
> > struggle all the way and I still haven't got the compressed bootloader
> > going properly. Could it be that my problems stem from using 2.3.18?
>
>
> As I recall, the ram disk didn't work in 2.3.18. There are some
> general things that don't work in 2.3.18, so I bailed out and
> updated 2.2.xx to get something stable. Since 2.3.xx is now
> in it's mid-30's (still younger than I :-), perhaps it is mature
> enough that I should visit again and make sure the 8xx configuration
> continues to work.
Speaking of updating and 2.2, 8xx support were broken in 2.2.14 because
of changes in kernel/head.S. Could someone take care so that the
following patch makes it into 2.2.15:
--- linux-2.2.14.orig/arch/ppc/mbxboot/head.S Wed Dec 22 17:52:37 1999
+++ linux-2.2.14/arch/ppc/mbxboot/head.S Tue Jan 11 16:38:54 2000
@@ -222,12 +222,10 @@
lwz r5,0(r2)
/* tell kernel we're prep */
- /*
- * get start address of kernel code which is stored as a coff
- * entry. see boot/head.S -- Cort
+ /*
+ * now all PPC kernels start execution at address 0
*/
li r9,0x0
- lwz r9,0(r9)
mtlr r9
/* Invalidate the instruction cache because we just copied a
Also, is there any reason why not at least the 8xx-only code in 2.2.15
could be updated to working versions?
//Marcus
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