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Re: Problems booting Wheezy/sid kernels on ps3



On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:37:00 +0200
Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:46:22 -0500
> David Mattli <dmm@mattli.us> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Has anyone had success booting a Wheezy or Sid kernel on a ps3? For me
> > it's freezing immediately after petitboot on a blank screen with a
> > single(unchanging, no blinking) "_" in the UL corner. The
> > 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 kernel works fine.
> > 
> > Specifically linux-image-3.0.0-2-powerpc64 and
> > linux-image-3.0.0-1-powerpc64 are not working for me.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > David Mattli
> > 
> 
> David it might be an upstream bug in linux-3.0:
> http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2011-October/007503.html
> 
> Regards,
>    Antonio
> 

David, a fix has been created by Geoff Levand, see

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2011-November/007508.html

it has been sent upstream and will be included in 3.2 as well as 3.0
and 3.1 -stable versions. Debian kernels will pick up the fix from
stable releases.

Regards,
   Antonio

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