Re: can't boot 2.6.17-rc1
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 12:55 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
>
> > From my quick tests here (I'm travelling, so no much time), it looks
> > like it's dying on the first msleep() (either radeonfb or whatever else
> > if you play with driver order), which makes me strongly suspect the idle
> > loop changes. I'll try to fix that when I'm back next week unless paulus
> > beats me to it.
>
> This patch fixes it for me on my powerbook (1.5GHz albook). The issue
> seems to be that the cpu objects to HID0_NAP being cleared in HID0.
> If I have this code power_save_6xx_restore, it hangs:
>
> _GLOBAL(power_save_6xx_restore)
> mfspr r11,SPRN_HID0
> rlwinm r11,r11,0,10,8 /* Clear NAP */
> mtspr SPRN_HID0,r11
> b transfer_to_handler_cont
>
> If I take out that rlwinm, it boots. Bizaare.
Gack ? Didn't I always cleared it before ? Hrm... I think darwin also
clears it in various places ... coul.dn't it be some stpid register
clobbering I'm doing with r11 at this point ? (no source at hand to
check)
Ben.
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