Subject: Re: PowerMacintosh B&W G3 boot failure - linux-2.6.36.x

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:52:18 +1000

On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 02:33 +0200, acrux wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:49:16 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > What video driver are you trying to use ? Have you tried plain offb ?
> > (disabling whatever is the native driver for your video card, ie,
> > radeonfb or aty128fb or even atyfb, dunno what you have in there).
> > 
> > You can also try something like "udbg-immortal" on the kernel command
> > line see if that brings you more debug output.
> > 
> 
> i asked for more tests and it seems  "udbg-immortal" maybe helped.
> Here a new screenshot:
> http://cruxppc.org/~acrux/DSC_0002_modified.jpg
> and the bootkernel (config was attached in the previus mail) was
> compiled with CONFIG_SMP=y 

Does the problem happens if you compile it without CONFIG_SMP ?

Cheers,
Ben.