Debugging linux Kernel

2005-03-14 Thread linay long
Hello All, I am new to debugging linux kernel. I have an mpc8540 based board with BDI2000. Now I am trying to debug Linux kernel.u-boot is the bootloader.The steps I followed listed below.The problem I am facing is when I put break point at start_kernel address got from System.map, use bootm

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Antonio-M. Corbi Bellot
El lun, 14-03-2005 a las 20:09 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt escribió: BTW, have you any news in the trackpad / sound fields of these new laptops ;). I remember someone (probably you) comenting on the list about playing with a friends new-laptot and thinking in a not very hard solution

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Ok, patch applied and tested, at least for me works!, cpu is detected correctly at boot time and then cpufreq works, send you a small piece of dmesg and the corresponding cpuinfo, hope this helps. I use 'powernowd' as userspace governor. I would like to mention that I applied the patch

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hi everyone, I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc kernel to http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded (mostly because

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:51:34AM -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Sven Luther wrote: I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc kernel to http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 And altough it is not yet fully ready to be uploaded

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: Hello Sven, On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc kernel to http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 And altough

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:29:33AM +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: - graphics seem to work, so maybe the following is harmless? radeonfb (:00:10.0): Invalid ROM signature 303 should be0xaa55 Some overeager PC-only hacker that believes that god intended all processors to be

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:10 -0800, Paul J. Lucas wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: + * - All new machines with 7447A CPUs Doesn't the Mac Mini also have this CPU? If so, does this mean that the CPU in the Mini is running slow? It seems to be booting

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Benjamin Herrenschmidt, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: It seems the new laptops are booting with CPU set to low speed. /proc/cpuinfo outputs the wrong fequency (thinks it's high speed) but bogomips shows that it's running at about half speed. Mmmmhhh I don't know if I am lucky or if I have

Re: HELP! - problems with 2.6.8 kernel on PM G4/350 (PCI graphics)

2005-03-14 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
By downloading the newest source deb (2.6.8-13) and compiling anything having to do with sound as modules, I was able to get the kernel to compile cleanly. Can I unset CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE and CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG, or do I need them even though this machine doesn't have any serial ports? Be

Blocking process

2005-03-14 Thread linay long
Hello All, I have one doubt. How the process is blocking on a system call. For instance, I have one system call like socket() from glibc. This library call is going to call sys_socket() kernel function.My doubt is how the fucntion socket in the application(process) is waiting untill sys_socket

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-14 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Seg, 2005-03-14 s 11:48 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11/ ./ Notice the new URL, it will install 2.6.11-0.2 packages. Thanks, great! BTW, the image you had uploaded has been working great for me, in my Firewire Lime iBook.

results of testing pre-release 2.6.11-0.2 kernel package

2005-03-14 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Sven, I tried you new 2.6.11-0.2 kernel packages. Summary of the problems: no trackpad, no sound, no fn-key. Details about my configuration (dmesg output etc.) can be found at http://seehuhn.de/comp/powerbook/2.6.11-0.2/ In addition to the real problems below I noticed a small

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 12:26 +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: Ciao Benjamin Herrenschmidt, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: It seems the new laptops are booting with CPU set to low speed. /proc/cpuinfo outputs the wrong fequency (thinks it's high speed) but bogomips shows that it's running at about

sound in new powerbooks

2005-03-14 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, I have one of these very new Apple powerbooks. One of the problems I encountered is, that sound is not working under Linux. Since Sven suggested in a recent email that this might be a configuration problem on my side I want to make sure: did anybody manage to get sound working on a

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Benjamin Herrenschmidt, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: Yes. Some machines boot high speed, some boot low-speed, depending on the mood of apple engineers at the time. Must be hard to work under Steve Jobs then :D Your model boots high speed, so be happy :) I will! And thanks for the

recommend a firewall

2005-03-14 Thread Tamas K Papp
Hi, I thought it would be a good idea to have a firewall on my machine. I did apt-cache search firewall, but there are so many... Could somebody please recommend a firewall program that is reliable, simple yet easy to administer? I don't know a lot about firewalls. Firewalls with text config

Re: recommend a firewall

2005-03-14 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:39:47PM +0100, SteX wrote: Hi, I thought it would be a good idea to have a firewall on my machine. I did apt-cache search firewall, but there are so many... Could somebody please recommend a firewall program that is reliable, simple yet easy to administer? I

Re: Help: system crashes on Pismo

2005-03-14 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:11:16AM +0100, Rainer Gutkas wrote: First I thought it got something to do with connecting via samba to an Windows share which is actually a USB 2.0 Disk, because this only happend when I did this task. But the last crash I didn' even attempt to use samba the

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-14 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:10:09 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11/ ./ Still no source packages? Or how to make do without them? -- Leandro Guimares Faria Corcete Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maring, PR, BRASIL+55

Re: recommend a firewall

2005-03-14 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:02:48PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: Hello Tamas, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:48:42AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: Thanks, but maybe I was not clear enough. I know nothing about packet filtering. If I use iptables, I am likely to set it up with a lot of holes in it,

Re: sound in new powerbooks

2005-03-14 Thread Marco Vignati
Hi all, I have one of these new powerbooks (15 - 1.5 GHz) and I have the same problems of Jochen. I'm not a kernel expert but I installed linux (Debian) on many machines and laptops. With pbbuttonsd I get the volume and lcd brightness keys working, but not the eject key and I confirm that pressing

Re: recommend a firewall

2005-03-14 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Tamas K Papp, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: I was looking for something simple quick. Firestarter (overall, and absolutely suggested if you use Gnome/XFCE) Guarddog (a little more complex, QT based so looks better in KDE environment) Firestarter is my choice. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM;

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi Ben, I seem to be suffering from this issue: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1666MHz revision: 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102) bogomips: 829.44 machine :

usb wireless 54g adapter now works on powerpc!!

2005-03-14 Thread Guglielmo Dapavo
Finally ibook,imac,emac... users with no pcmcia or pci can get 54mbps 802.11g connectivity on linux! The zd1211 usb chipset module now supports powerpc arch: here u can get the module: http://www.dapavo.it/zd1211/ here is the zd1211 project: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/ bye --

Re: usb wireless 54g adapter now works on powerpc!!

2005-03-14 Thread Colin Leroy
On 14 Mar 2005 at 18h03, Guglielmo Dapavo wrote: Hi, The zd1211 usb chipset module now supports powerpc arch: here u can get the module: http://www.dapavo.it/zd1211/ here is the zd1211 project: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/ Good news :) Does it work fine (hotplugging,

Re: recommend a firewall

2005-03-14 Thread steinm
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:48:42AM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:39:47PM +0100, SteX wrote: Hi, I thought it would be a good idea to have a firewall on my machine. I did apt-cache search firewall, but there are so many... Could somebody please recommend a

Re: usb wireless 54g adapter now works on powerpc!!

2005-03-14 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Guglielmo Dapavo, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: Finally ibook,imac,emac... users with no pcmcia or pci can get 54mbps 802.11g connectivity on linux! You are a saint. Really. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves why?. Hurd

Re: Is it possible to run a tv card?

2005-03-14 Thread CK
hi, Is it possible to run a tv card on debian ppc? yes I used a wintv in my beige g3 without problems on my powerbook I use a wintv usb see http://usbvision.sf.net/ Whatch TV in full screen mode? yes (xawtv, mplayer etc...) record tv to disc? I use mencoder like this: mencoder -oac

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:19:12AM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: Em Seg, 2005-03-14 às 11:48 +0100, Sven Luther escreveu: deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11/ ./ Notice the new URL, it will install 2.6.11-0.2 packages. Thanks, great!

powermac/images-2.88/rescue.bin not found

2005-03-14 Thread Brian W. Carver
Hi, So the debian installer detected my new 12 Powerbook's ATA 100 HD once I downloaded the BK devel kernel from ppckernel.org here: http://ppckernel.org/download/bk-2.5-devel-pmac/linux-bk-2.5-devel-pmac-2.6.11-rc4.tar.bz2 and renamed /boot/vmlinux-2.6.11-rc4 to linux.bin and put it in the

Re: Airport Express

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 14 March 2005 21:13, mike dentifrice wrote: I'm wondering what to do with an Airport Express, and have a few questions in mind, that a first bunch of google queries didn't really solve: As far as I know, Airport Extreme (or at least the central chip behind it) is undocumented, so

Re: New Powerbook 12 No HD found (ATA 100)

2005-03-14 Thread Matthias Kirschner
Hi Brian, * Brian W. Carver [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-13 17:57:42 -0800]: Or is there some other simple solution? Thanks. Get a new CD with the new Debian installer [1], that should work. Best wishes, Matze 1. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- Join the Fellowship and

Re: Airport Express

2005-03-14 Thread mike dentifrice
Lee Braiden a dit: On Monday 14 March 2005 21:13, mike dentifrice wrote: I'm wondering what to do with an Airport Express, and have a few questions in mind, that a first bunch of google queries didn't really solve: As far as I know, Airport Extreme (or at least the central chip behind

Re: Airport Express

2005-03-14 Thread Ben Hill
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 22:13 +0100, mike dentifrice wrote: I'm wondering what to do with an Airport Express Use it under OS X - I'm afraid that looks like your only option. The device uses a Broadcom chipset - which Broadcom aren't releasing the drivers for. You can check the archives of this

Re: Airport Express

2005-03-14 Thread Ben Hill
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 22:40 +0100, mike dentifrice wrote: I wasn't refering to Airport Extreme Looks like I made the same mistake - not reading your mail properly! :-/ Disregard my previous reply. Cheers, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.seigan.org PGP Key fingerprint = 4309 1C58 5143 AFAC

benefits of apt-build for powerpc?

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, Recently my housemates have been compiling debian using a modified apt-build that we made support distcc. It is producing big speed-ups (and space savings, which surprised me) on our x86 (athlon) boxen. I was wondering if I would see much benefit from doing the same for my PBG4 -- I mean

Re: benefits of apt-build for powerpc?

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:13, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: PBG4 -- I mean with x86 the i386 packages are a long way behind in terms of instruction set. Is this the same for PowerPC? I gather G3 optimisations can be quite effective, even without altivec. Problem I have is getting debian (and

Re: Ben and his MiniMac

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:45 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: hey ben, i know you have installed debian onto your minimac have you enhanced or refined anything? done anything else note worthy? Appart from fighting with some video issues Apple support (until I figured that actually _screwing_ the

Re: Newer laptops CPU speed

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:01 +, Jochen Voss wrote: From other people's posts I conclude that bogomips should approximately equal clock? It depends on the CPU, but on a 7447A, yes. On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:33:42PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: This is completely untested as I

Re: debian freezes on boot

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
--Mike Hi, i only installed the sarge from scratch with the original kernel 2.6.x my videocard is the rage 64 not 128, my mac is that old lol, i installed the system, but its when i reboot on the HD for the first time, with yaboot and shit, that is where is freezes, sorry i should of made

Re: usb wireless 54g adapter now works on powerpc!!

2005-03-14 Thread Guglielmo Dapavo
Colin Leroy wrote: On 14 Mar 2005 at 18h03, Guglielmo Dapavo wrote: Hi, The zd1211 usb chipset module now supports powerpc arch: here u can get the module: http://www.dapavo.it/zd1211/ here is the zd1211 project: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/ Good news :) Does it work fine

Re: Re: Debugging linux Kernel

2005-03-14 Thread linay long
Thanks Giger On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 Niklaus Giger wrote : Am Montag, 14. März 2005 10.43 schrieb linay long: Hello All, I am new to debugging linux kernel. I have an mpc8540 based board with BDI2000. Now I am trying to debug Linux kernel.u-boot is the bootloader.The steps I followed

Re: Ben and his MiniMac

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 17:36 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: a life? your live in canberra right? im not sure if thats possible. Next time you pop here, you are welcome to hang out around green square in Kingston :) Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Ben and his MiniMac

2005-03-14 Thread david
There is more to life than hours spent in traffic and cityscapes dominated by gaudy neon lighting ;) david Dean Hamstead wrote: a life? your live in canberra right? im not sure if thats possible. Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:45 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: hey ben,

Powerbook G3 and dual-head display

2005-03-14 Thread Ian Langworth
Does anybody have dual-head working with a Powerbook G3? I've got a Pismo (dual Firewire) running Ubuntu/Hoary with xorg-6.8.2. I found this thread, describing a patch for the r128 driver and the required configuration directives, but I'm not sure if that patch has actually been applied to xorg

Re: Ben and his MiniMac

2005-03-14 Thread Dean Hamstead
what are you saying about my car? i dont turn on the neon lights during the day... Dean david wrote: There is more to life than hours spent in traffic and cityscapes dominated by gaudy neon lighting ;) david Dean Hamstead wrote: a life? your live in canberra right? im not sure if thats possible.

Airport Express

2005-03-14 Thread mike dentifrice
Hi there, I'm wondering what to do with an Airport Express, and have a few questions in mind, that a first bunch of google queries didn't really solve: - is there a configuration tool available under GNU/Linux, or a telnet/web interface of some kind to bypass Apple's proprietary