Bug#319986: powerpc: kernel-image-2.6.12-sven64 does not boot dual CPU PowerMac7,3
Package: kernel
Severity: important
"Sven" == Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/07/msg00304.html]:
Sven> Oh, darn, thsis means something is broken. or something
Sven> else,, please can you comment on a real bugreporty
Sven> (reportbug kernel should do).
The 2.6.12-sven64_1_powerpc.deb that was tested can be found at
http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/kernel-image-2.6.12-sven64_1_powerpc.deb
[The text below was originally posted to debian-powerpc
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/07/msg00273.html ]
This kernel fails to boot a dual 970FX G5 (PowerMac7,3). I'm not sure what
the relevant parts you need are, but after the initial start it
switches to a reverse video terminal mode, runs for a bit and prints
about a screenful of data ending with
<quote>
time_init: decrementer frequency 33.333333 Mhz
smp_core99_probe
smp_core99_kick_cpu
smp_core99_kick_cpu done
smp_core99_setup_cup 0 done
2.6.12-sven64
</quote>
which I copied by hand. If you need some other input from earlier let
me know what you are looking for (its a pain to copy it all by
hand). Here is the cpuinfo for this machine running 2.6.8-power4-smp
~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : PPC970FX
clock : 2000MHz
revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)
bogomips : 1331.20
processor : 1
cpu : PPC970FX
clock : 2000MHz
revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300)
bogomips : 1331.20
total bogomips : 2662.40
machine : PowerMac7,3
motherboard : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5)
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 512K unified
memory : 0MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Sorry for the sketchy info - my job has kept me off my G5 Linux box
for the last few months and I've lost touch with the little idea I had
about what is useful :-(
Cheers!
Shyamal
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