Re: Bug#622745: linux-image-2.6-sparc64-smp: squeeze provided kernels did not boot on Sun Fire 480R or 880

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:57:25PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Does your custom kernel use the old IDE cmd64x driver?
> > 
> > What happens if you add 'blacklist=pata_cmd64x' to the kernel command
> > line for the Debian kernel?
> 
> Not better, see below. I

Yeah, but the crash is deferred.  Nothing else seems to trigger it.

> attached the config of the self compiled kernel > for comparisons.
[...]

A simple 'yes' would have sufficed.

So pata_cmd64x is doing something slightly different.  I'll look at
the code later, but can't promise I'll be able to find anything.

Ben.

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