Bug#323724: Dual G5 turns off after a while
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:41:51PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
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> "Sven" == Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
> Sven> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:37:09PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad
> Sven> wrote:
>
> >> Actually I'm having the same problem that Paul reported,
> >> except on a PowerMac 7,3 (970FX). The boot fails at the exact
> >> same point. I can try benh's suggestion but it will take some
> >> time (need to install the biarch toolchain and recompile
> >> kernel), and it was more about isolating the place where the
> >> fault happens, right?
>
> Sven> Yes, please do, the biarch toolchain is in sid, so you just
> Sven> have to install those, and you probably want to do this
> Sven> anyway.
>
> Hi Sven,
>
> I rebuilt a ppc64 kernel with the Debian source package with exactly
> the same config as 2.6.12-1-powerpc64 from sid.
>
> I turned on the udbg console for pmac in setup.c as benh suggested. I
> basically turned on debug in all the files in arch/ppc64/kernel and
> the kernel still seems to halt at the same point with the following
> output towards the end (copied by hand)
>
> <quote>
> time_init: decrementer frequency 33.333333 Mhz
> -> set_preferred_console()
> stdoout is /pci@0,f0000000/NVDA,Parent@10/NVDA,Display-B@1
> No preferred console found!
> smp_core99_probe
> smp_core99_kick_cpu
> smp_core99_kick_cpu done
> smp_core99_setup_cup 0 done
>
> 2.6.12-ppc64
> </quote>
>
> (the -ppc64 suffix is what I passed to make-kpkg, probably a bad
> choice but....).
>
> I've not had time to determine if this console message from setup.c is
> important, and I don't have the knowledge to know on sight (though it
> certainly sounds like a problem)! But that seems to be the only
> additional debug traces that seem relevant. As far as I can tell the
> last line is coming from the pseries set up code where it prints out
> UTS_RELEASE.
Mmm, i will let benh comment again, he is the expert on this, CCed to him
even.
> Any ideas? I can continue on this on the weekend if you can suggest a
> way forward (had one too many Friday night beers to keep going right
> now ;-)
>
> Finally, do you want to merge this bug with #319986? It does seem like
> they are both the same even though the machines are slightly
> different.
Already done, i think.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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