Subject: hvc_iseries not working

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:05:40 +0200

2.6.21 arch/powerpc/configs/iseries_defconfig works on an i825 with v5r4
2.6.22 arch/powerpc/configs/iseries_defconfig does not. But it works on
a i820 with v5r3.
2.6.22 boots ok with CONFIG_VIOCONS

It gets up to this point:

vio_bus_init: processing c0000000fbfff570
vio_bus_init: processing c0000000fbfff6b0
vio_bus_init: processing c0000000fbfff7f0
vio_bus_init: processing c0000000fbfff930
vio_bus_init: processing c0000000fbfffa70
vio_bus_init: processing c0000000fbfffbb0
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1184327881.720:1): initialized
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
viopath: opening connection to partition 0, setting sinst 32778, tinst 32769
hvc: hosting partition 0
vio_register_driver: driver hvc_console registering
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blo

with ppc64_defconfig it looks like that:

audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1184326841.030:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rpaphp: RPA HOT Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.1
rpadlpar_io_init: partition not DLPAR capable
HVSI: registered 0 devices
viopath: opening connection to partition 0, setting sinst 32774, tinst 32769
hvc: hosting partition 0
vio_register_driver: driver hvc_console registering
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing