Re: Modernizing a Macintosh LC III
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Patrick McCarthy <patrickjmc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://imgur.com/sUirUFC
>>
>> The last line is about disabling the boot console, long before macfb is
>> initialized, so there's a "black hole" in between.
>>
>> Can you try to add "keep_bootcon" to the kernel command line? That
>> should keep the boot console alive. It may conflict later with e.g. macfb
>> and the freeing of init memory, and crash horribly there, but it may give
>> some valuable information about what happens during the "black hole".
>
> This was valuable, thanks! I set the parameter and it showed that I'm
> getting a kernel panic for lacking an FPU. I started this project after the
> 2.2 kernel was throwing errors for unimplemented FPU instructions, so this
> doesn't surprise me. (I'm not the Mac owner so I can't vouch for factory
> config, and the PDS slot currently holds a Farallon ethernet card.)
Oops, another one bitten by that Debian kernel which has
CONFIG_M68KFPU_EMU disabled...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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-- Linus Torvalds
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