Re: Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:10 +0200, Enrico Cataldi wrote: Finally, got it! 2.6.17-rc1 plus patch from Paul Mackerras, now i've it running! Thanks a lot for the great work! The patch isn't entirely correct though. It just hides the problem. I think I've found out what's going on and will

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-13 Thread Paul Mackerras
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: _GLOBAL(power_save_6xx_restore) mfspr r11,SPRN_HID0 rlwinm r11,r11,0,10,8 /* Clear NAP */ mtspr SPRN_HID0,r11 b transfer_to_handler_cont If I take out that rlwinm, it boots. Bizaare. Gack ? Didn't I always

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-10 Thread Michael Schmitz
Even more bizarre: if I get the old arch/ppc default_idle() from the attic, and call that in cpu_idle() instead of ppc_md.power_save(), it just works. Thanks. It works for me. Now I get another new problem, I lose the sound: You should have noticed errors when building the sound

Re: Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-10 Thread Enrico Cataldi
Finally, got it! 2.6.17-rc1 plus patch from Paul Mackerras, now i've it running! Thanks a lot for the great work! Best regards, cataenry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 12:55 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-08 Thread Paul Mackerras
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-08 Thread Michael Schmitz
From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back next week unless paulus

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-08 Thread Bin Zhang
On 4/8/06, Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 06 2006, Michael Schmitz wrote: Well, 2.6.17 not booting seems well established now. What you can do to track down the cause is called 'git bisection'. Google should have a few instructions on that. Hummm, this is strange, since I just grabbed the .17-rc1 patch, recompiled a kernel for

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Apr 06 2006, Michael Schmitz wrote: Well, 2.6.17 not booting seems well established now. What you can do to track down the cause is called 'git bisection'. Google should have a few instructions on that. Hummm, this is strange, since I just grabbed the .17-rc1 patch, recompiled a

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
I see the same hang on my PowerBook 5,9 (17 G4 HR). Note that I don't run Debian, but I thought I'd help out. The patch has a bit too much changes behind it to do a simple revert. Please add the later commit from Paulus on top of this one (ff2e6d7427...) and try that one (may be

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This is an ATi-based machine, Mobility 9600 or 9700. Not sure of the exact number. As others have already tried, it doesn't seem to help to switch to OpenFirmware framebuffer. The machine will lock up anyway :/ Yep, that points to radeonfb being OK. I'll have a look myself later

Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Enrico Cataldi
I've hard resetted the source and reverted the bad commit, and it still hangs. If i can do something to help, let me know. Regards, CataEnry -- Enrico Cataldi - Undergraduate student @ Computer Science mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 211912796 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hamradio: IW6DMM

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back next week unless paulus beats

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back next week unless paulus

Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
I've hard resetted the source and reverted the bad commit, and it still hangs. If i can do something to help, let me know. You can try to revert the idle loop changes manually. The comment in Paulus' commit indicates that the caller of the idle loop handles interrupt enable/disable, so

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-06 Thread Enrico Cataldi
Hi all. On my system the kernel hangs during console_init. Since its configuration comes from an oldconfig and others manual check, it should be right. Hope this helps. CataEnry -- Enrico Cataldi - Undergraduate student @ Computer Science mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 211912796

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
On my system the kernel hangs during console_init. Since its configuration comes from an oldconfig and others manual check, it should be right. Hope this helps. Well, 2.6.17 not booting seems well established now. What you can do to track down the cause is called 'git bisection'. Google

Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-06 Thread Tony Vroon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A bisection between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17-rc1 (current GIT tree), which took quite a few reboots, thinks this is the bad guy: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0652fc9a28c3ef8cd59264bfcb089c44d1b0e06 I see

Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
A bisection between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17-rc1 (current GIT tree), which took quite a few reboots, thinks this is the bad guy: No bisect without reboots :-) Thanks for taking the time ...

Re: Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schmitz
A bisection between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17-rc1 (current GIT tree), which took quite a few reboots, thinks this is the bad guy: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0652fc9a28c3ef8cd59264bfcb089c44d1b0e06 I see the same hang on my PowerBook 5,9 (17 G4

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-06 Thread Tony Vroon
Michael Schmitz wrote: A bisection between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17-rc1 (current GIT tree), which took quite a few reboots, thinks this is the bad guy: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0652fc9a28c3ef8cd59264bfcb089c44d1b0e06 I see the same hang on my

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-06 Thread cataenry
Hi! I've done some hard work, even if i think there's somthing strange.. that simple pointer initialization shouldn't do all this. But i shouldn't have make mistakes. Hope this helps. At least, i hope the attempt will be appreciated. Best regards, CataEnry

Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-04 Thread guy yasko
On 4/4/06, cataenry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bin,yes, i've the same problem, in particular, my iBook (PowerBook6,7)hangs after time_init prints. Now i'm building a kernel with someprintk to detect if it hangs during console_init. I'm seeing the same problem with 2.6.17-rc1 on my