Bug#519984: Cannot boot 2.6.26 kernel on HPPA N4000
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Grant
Grundler<grundler@parisc-linux.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:08:24PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
>> Debian kernel seems to triggers HPMCs with PCI addon cards. It's been
>> discussed previously here, dunno what the status of that bug is, but
>> iirc it doesn't affect upstream.
>
>
> While many PCI cards won't work in PARISC systems, some do including many
> of those sold by HP. For generic PCI support, AFAIK, only PCI-PCI bridge
> support is broken and I've not tested those in a while. I have two systems
> setup in Cupertino Test Ring which each have one add-on card with PCI-PCI
> bridge (rio and ios).
I guess this wasn't obvious enough from the thread I was pointing to,
but this bug affects otherwise perfectly working PCI cards (such as
tulip, SYM2, or tg3). As I said, only 2.6.26 from Debian seems to be
affected (among the few kernels I've tested).
HTH
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Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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