ide broken w/ kernel.org 2.6.8.1!!

Krischan keitsch at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Sep 25 08:00:24 MDT 2004


Hi,

I made the same experience with the 2.6.8.1 Kernel. I Also used my 2.6.7 
config-file! Stay with 2.6.7 or wait for a new release.

Krischan
Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 21:07 schrieb Albrecht Dreß:
> To answer myself: exactly the same config works fine with kernel 2.6.7
> 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 Dreß:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I tried to upgrade my Powermac G4 "Silver" from 2.4.25-ben1 to 2.6.8.1
> > from kernel.org, but when booting it, it hangs when accessing the hard
> > disk drive. Messages are (written down by hand, so they may be
> > incomplete):
> >
> > 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
> >
> > and then several
> >
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda:<3> ide-pmac lost interrupt, dma status 8080
> >
> > Tweaking the code to force the ide controller down to udma 3 as the only
> > replay I got to my previous post suggested didn't help.
> >
> > The puzzling thing is that with 2.4.25-ben1, UDMA 4 actually seems to
> > work; at least the box works flawlessly with it as well as with OS X
> > (excerpt from 2.4.25 dmesg):
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > 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
> > ppckernel.org look somewhat out of date)? Where?
> >
> > HELP!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Cheers, Albrecht.
> >
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