ide broken w/ kernel.org 2.6.8.1!!

Albrecht Dreß yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Sep 22 20:07:33 MDT 2004


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To answer myself: exactly the same config works fine with kernel 2.6.7 =20
from kernel.org. So the changes to 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1 broke something!

Cheers, Albrecht.

Am 21.09.04 19:32 schrieb(en) Albrecht Dre=DF:
> Hi all,
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> I tried to upgrade my Powermac G4 "Silver" from 2.4.25-ben1 to 2.6.8.1 =20
> from kernel.org, but when booting it, it hangs when accessing the hard =20
> disk drive. Messages are (written down by hand, so they may be =20
> incomplete):
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> ide0 Apple Keylargo ATA 4
> hda IBM-IC35L040AVVA07-0   # the drive the box came with
> set UDMA timing for mode 4, reg 0x0c50038c
> Enabling Ultra DMA 4
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> and then several
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> hda: lost interrupt
> hda:<3> ide-pmac lost interrupt, dma status 8080
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> Tweaking the code to force the ide controller down to udma 3 as the only =
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> replay I got to my previous post suggested didn't help.
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> The puzzling thing is that with 2.4.25-ben1, UDMA 4 actually seems to =20
> work; at least the box works flawlessly with it as well as with OS X =20
> (excerpt from 2.4.25 dmesg):
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> Found a Keylargo mac-io controller, rev: 3, mapped at 0xfde00000
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
> ide0: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-4 controller, bus ID 2
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: IBM-IC35L040AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive
> hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 4
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> Questions:
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> Does anyone have 2.6.8.1 running on a G4/800 "Silver"?
> Or should I try a different version? Which one?
> Is it at all possible to use stock (kernel.org) kernels with a Mac?
> Or should I load a "special" one (the links to Ben's kernels at =20
> ppckernel.org look somewhat out of date)? Where?
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> HELP!
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Cheers, Albrecht.
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