Re: Boot failure with kernel 2.6.15 on G4

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:33:59PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > This message is generally a sign that something else went wrong. Magnus, the
> > best way on this would be to file a bug report against initramfs-tools about
> > this second problem, and if possible provide the whole log.
> > 
> > Benjamin, BTW, there seems to be some issue about pmac_zilog and the normal
> > serial controller, that if both are builtin the kernel, then the PC serial
> > controller will take priority over pmac_zilog, and this second one will not
> > work.
> > 
> > Any hint on how to workaround that ? 
> 
> None currently. It's an old issue. The new serial core cannot deal with
> 2 drivers wanting to share the same major device. The only solution
> would be to allocate a new major for pmac_zilog (or steal one that is
> only used by a non-ppc arch, doesn't sparc has a separate major for
> zilog ? we could re-use that ....)

Getting the pc-serial driver to not-load on apple hardware as we used to do
doesn't help here, right ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther