Re: powemac g5 booting successfully only with 2.6.18

[Giuseppe Valente <givalent@cisco.com>]

Hi,

Just wanted to share that enabling CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA in the kernel  
config solved the issue.

Thanks,
Giuseppe


On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Giuseppe Valente wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm getting this issue on a Powermac G5 (dual 2.0Ghz processor) with  
> any kernel newer than 2.6.18 (I tried 2.6.26 and 2.6.30). The kernel  
> boots fine but then the screen freezes, whereas the boot seems to  
> continue fine in fact it responds to ctrl-alt-canc and I'm even able  
> to ssh to it. The last messages I see on the screen are something  
> that probably correspond to the mpic messages below:
>
> (from /var/log/syslog)
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: Setting up MPIC " MPIC 1    
> " version 1.2 at f8040000, max 4 CPUs
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: ISU size: 124, shift: 7,  
> mask: 7f
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: Initializing for 124 sources
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic: Setting up HT PICs  
> workarounds for U3/U4
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: mpic:   - HT:07.0 [0x90] vendor  
> 106b device 0053 has 86 irqs
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: PID hash table entries: 4096  
> (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: time_init: decrementer frequency  
> = 33.333333 MHz
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: time_init: processor frequency    
> = 2000.000000 MHz
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Sep  3 09:30:31 comet-mac2 kernel: serial8250_console_init: nothing  
> to do on PowerMac
>
>
> Full log is attached but I can't find anything revealing on it. I  
> even tried with a newer kernel compiled with the same .config as the  
> one that works but no success.
>
> Any help on this appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Giuseppe
> <syslog>