[powerstation-owners] SLOF source code available

Jarod Wilson jarod at redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 14:39:09 MST 2008


James Bottomley wrote:
> My next problem seems to be, having built it, I can't boot the takeover
> image.  This is what it does:
> 
> 0 > boot net  
> Trying to load:  from: /ht/pci at 2/ethernet at 4,1 ...  
>  Bootloader 1.6 
>   Reading MAC address from device: 00:14:5E:9E:01:01
>   Requesting IP address via DHCP: 153.66.140.6
>   Requesting file "/ppc64/takeover-client" via TFTP from 153.66.140.171
>   Receiving data:  996 KBytes
>   TFTP: Received /ppc64/takeover-client (996 KBytes)
>   Successfully loaded
>  Failed to allocated memory for RTAS
> 
>  takeover on cpu1 (EAFACE8, 100000000) 
>  takeover on cpu2 (EAFB300, 200000000) 
>  takeover on cpu3 (EAFB918, 300000000) 
>  takeover on master cpu |
> 
> And then hangs forever.

My own build of the -4 firmware pulled down from IBM also hangs 
indefinitely, haven't yet tried building from Adrian's git tree.

> It could simply be anomalies in my build environment.

That's something I was wondering myself. Fedora 10 on my end, fwiw.

> Does anyone have
> a working takeover image and build firmware available for download
> anywhere?

The pre-release build on the fixstars site does work for me.

http://us.fixstars.com/products/powerstation/firmware/

Would obviously like to get to the point where my locally built ones 
work too though...

--jarod



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