Linux 2.6.10 -> partial success here...

[Geert Janssens]

Encouraged by Joseph and Stephan, I also downloaded linux 2.6.10, to 
give it a try.

After configuration, it compiled fine, but there are some problems 
during boot:

1. The framebuffer doesn't seem to work properly. With this I mean, log 
messages are printed on screen but some characters seem to be distorted 
and flickering.

2. While loading the tulip driver for my PCI based PNIC-II network card, 
I get a kernel oops:

kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11, 2002)
kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.0 (0084 -> 0087)
kernel: Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
kernel: PREEMPT
kernel: NIP: DB896828 LR: DB896788 SP: D95ABDB0 REGS: d95abd00 TRAP: 
0300    Not tainted
kernel: MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
kernel: DAR: 80800030, DSISR: 40000000
kernel: TASK = d9cfcbb0[1067] 'modprobe' THREAD: d95aa000
kernel: Last syscall: 128
kernel: GPR00: DB899B54 D95ABDB0 D9CFCBB0 D4C13000 00000000 00000000 
D4C139FC D95ABD98
kernel: GPR08: DB89E884 80800030 01A08000 D96D6860 28442428 1004B7D8 
00000000 00000000
kernel: GPR16: D95ABDB8 00000000 DB89BED0 00000018 C0A65C48 D96D6230 
DB8A0000 D96D6220
kernel: GPR24: 00000009 DB8A0000 80800000 C0A65C00 D96D6000 000000B4 
80800000 00000000
kernel: NIP [db896828] tulip_init_one+0x2e0/0xd2c [tulip]
kernel: LR [db896788] tulip_init_one+0x240/0xd2c [tulip]
kernel: Call trace:
kernel:  [c01646cc] pci_device_probe+0xc4/0x234
kernel:  [c019e1f4] driver_probe_device+0x4c/0xa8
kernel:  [c019e5c4] driver_attach+0x78/0xe0
kernel:  [c019e6c4] bus_add_driver+0x98/0x184
kernel:  [c019f028] driver_register+0x30/0x40
kernel:  [c0164a68] pci_register_driver+0x70/0xc8
kernel:  [db07b04c] tulip_init+0x4c/0xf0 [tulip]
kernel:  [c00374c8] sys_init_module+0x288/0x3dc
kernel:  [c0004420] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x44


This makes the system hangs later on while trying to initialize nmbd, 
because no network is found.


Any ideas ? Which options did I miss, or add too much ?


Thanks,

Geert Jan