Subject: Re: [FYI] linux 2.6 still not working with PReP (ppc32)

From: Christian <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 03:47:05 +0100

Marc Dietrich schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> I read this thread about booting a PowerStack with newer kernels. Motivated by 
> this, I tried to compile a 2.6.10 kernel on my machine (with sym53c825a 
> onboard). Sadly, the scsi controller always timeouts during initialisation. I 

yes, booting is fine now, but i don't have a scsi disk (well, i only 
need the right cable...) in the PReP and booting diskless atm.

> had this problem also with the 2.4er kernels, but this was solved in later 
> versions (I'm running 2.4.21 now). Now the old driver seem to be removed (or 
> merged with sym53c8xx_2) and is only available to MCA and GSC devices.

yes, i had scsi timeout issues too with 2.4 and early 2.5 kernels. i've 
never tried newer 2.4 kernels with scsi-disk inside and i am happy to 
hear that the issues have been resolved.

> I also tried to change the irq routings in prep_pci.c like in the latest patch 
> with the sym53c8xx_2 driver,
> 	Slot 12 -> IRQ 15 (sym53c825)
> 	Slot 15 -> IRQ 11 (dec 21140)
> but this didn't helped.

i'm still working these out too, gotta find some time...

> Has anyone a working config file for this machine (PowerStack II 4000/Utah)?

i've found and attached a file called "config-2.6-minimal" from 
19-12-2003, linux 2.6.0 was released 17-Dec-2003. in there scsi is 
enabled, but i doubt i was able to boot this, because of the network 
issues. however, i only did "yes '' | make oldconfig" from 2.5.30 on, so 
the scsi part of this .config shouldn't have changed much.

thanks,
Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #387:

Your computer's union contract is set to expire at midnight.
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
CONFIG_PPC=y
CONFIG_PPC32=y

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
# CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not set
# CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
# CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
CONFIG_KMOD=y

#
# Processor
#
CONFIG_6xx=y
# CONFIG_40x is not set
# CONFIG_44x is not set
# CONFIG_POWER3 is not set
# CONFIG_POWER4 is not set
# CONFIG_8xx is not set
# CONFIG_ALTIVEC is not set
# CONFIG_TAU is not set
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set
# CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX is not set
CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU=y

#
# Platform options
#
CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM=y
# CONFIG_APUS is not set
# CONFIG_WILLOW is not set
# CONFIG_PCORE is not set
# CONFIG_POWERPMC250 is not set
# CONFIG_EV64260 is not set
# CONFIG_SPRUCE is not set
# CONFIG_LOPEC is not set
# CONFIG_MCPN765 is not set
# CONFIG_MVME5100 is not set
# CONFIG_PPLUS is not set
# CONFIG_PRPMC750 is not set
# CONFIG_PRPMC800 is not set
# CONFIG_SANDPOINT is not set
# CONFIG_ADIR is not set
# CONFIG_K2 is not set
# CONFIG_PAL4 is not set
# CONFIG_GEMINI is not set
# CONFIG_EST8260 is not set
# CONFIG_SBS8260 is not set
# CONFIG_RPX6 is not set
# CONFIG_TQM8260 is not set
CONFIG_PPC_CHRP=y
CONFIG_PPC_PMAC=y
CONFIG_PPC_PREP=y
CONFIG_PPC_OF=y
CONFIG_PPCBUG_NVRAM=y
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
# CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is not set
CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE=y
# CONFIG_PPC_RTAS is not set
# CONFIG_PREP_RESIDUAL is not set
CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y
CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=/dev/sda5 2"

#
# Bus options
#
# CONFIG_ISA is not set
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS=y
# CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC is not set
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set

#
# Parallel port support
#
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set

#
# Advanced setup
#
# CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS is not set

#
# Default settings for advanced configuration options are used
#
CONFIG_HIGHMEM_START=0xfe000000
CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE=0x30000000
CONFIG_KERNEL_START=0xc0000000
CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0x80000000
CONFIG_BOOT_LOAD=0x00800000

#
# Generic Driver Options
#

#
# Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
#
# CONFIG_MTD is not set

#
# Plug and Play support
#
# CONFIG_PNP is not set

#
# Block devices
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set
# CONFIG_LBD is not set

#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
# CONFIG_MD is not set

#
# ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
#
# CONFIG_IDE is not set

#
# SCSI device support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS is not set

#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set

#
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_REPORT_LUNS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING is not set

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_CPQFCTS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DMX3191D is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IPS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=0
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=16
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=64
# CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DC395x is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NSP32 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MESH is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MAC53C94 is not set

#
# Fusion MPT device support
#
# CONFIG_FUSION is not set

#
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
# CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set

#
# I2O device support
#
# CONFIG_I2O is not set

#
# Networking support
#
CONFIG_NET=y

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
# CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set
CONFIG_UNIX=y
# CONFIG_NET_KEY is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set
# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
# CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
# CONFIG_INET_AH is not set
# CONFIG_INET_ESP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP is not set
# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
# CONFIG_DECNET is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set

#
# SCTP Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
CONFIG_IPV6_SCTP__=y
# CONFIG_IP_SCTP is not set
# CONFIG_ATM is not set
# CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set
# CONFIG_LLC2 is not set
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_X25 is not set
# CONFIG_LAPB is not set
# CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set

#
# QoS and/or fair queueing
#
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set

#
# Network testing
#
# CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN is not set
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y

#
# ARCnet devices
#
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
# CONFIG_DUMMY is not set
# CONFIG_BONDING is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_TUN is not set

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
# CONFIG_MII is not set
# CONFIG_MACE is not set
# CONFIG_BMAC is not set
# CONFIG_OAKNET is not set
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_VORTEX=m
# CONFIG_TYPHOON is not set

#
# Tulip family network device support
#
CONFIG_NET_TULIP=y
CONFIG_DE2104X=m
CONFIG_TULIP=m
# CONFIG_TULIP_MWI is not set
# CONFIG_TULIP_MMIO is not set
CONFIG_DE4X5=m
# CONFIG_WINBOND_840 is not set
# CONFIG_DM9102 is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_PCI is not set

#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_ACENIC is not set
# CONFIG_DL2K is not set
# CONFIG_E1000 is not set
# CONFIG_NS83820 is not set
# CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set
# CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set
# CONFIG_R8169 is not set
# CONFIG_SIS190 is not set
# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
# CONFIG_TIGON3 is not set

#
# Ethernet (10000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_IXGB is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set
# CONFIG_PPP is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set

#
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
#
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set

#
# Token Ring devices
#
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FC is not set
# CONFIG_RCPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SHAPER is not set

#
# Wan interfaces
#
# CONFIG_WAN is not set

#
# Amateur Radio support
#
# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set

#
# IrDA (infrared) support
#
# CONFIG_IRDA is not set

#
# Bluetooth support
#
# CONFIG_BT is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN_BOOL is not set

#
# Graphics support
#
# CONFIG_FB is not set

#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y

#
# Input device support
#
CONFIG_INPUT=y

#
# Userland interfaces
#
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set

#
# Input I/O drivers
#
# CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
# CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_PCIPS2 is not set

#
# Input Device Drivers
#
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set

#
# Macintosh device drivers
#
# CONFIG_ADB_CUDA is not set
# CONFIG_ADB_PMU is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_FLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_ADB is not set

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set

#
# Serial drivers
#
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 is not set

#
# Non-8250 serial port support
#
# CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG is not set
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256

#
# I2C support
#
# CONFIG_I2C is not set

#
# I2C Algorithms
#

#
# I2C Hardware Bus support
#

#
# I2C Hardware Sensors Chip support
#
# CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR is not set

#
# Mice
#
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set

#
# IPMI
#
# CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER is not set

#
# Watchdog Cards
#
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
CONFIG_GEN_RTC=m
CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X=y
# CONFIG_DTLK is not set
# CONFIG_R3964 is not set
# CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set

#
# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
#
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_AGP is not set
# CONFIG_DRM is not set
# CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER is not set

#
# Multimedia devices
#
# CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set

#
# Digital Video Broadcasting Devices
#
# CONFIG_DVB is not set

#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_JBD=y
# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_XFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set

#
# CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_ISO9660_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UDF_FS is not set

#
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_FAT_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

#
# Pseudo filesystems
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
# CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set
CONFIG_RAMFS=y

#
# Miscellaneous filesystems
#
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BEFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set
# CONFIG_VXFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set

#
# Network File Systems
#
# CONFIG_NFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NFSD is not set
# CONFIG_EXPORTFS is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CIFS is not set
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
# CONFIG_INTERMEZZO_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFS_FS is not set

#
# Partition Types
#
# CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y

#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set

#
# USB support
#
# CONFIG_USB is not set
# CONFIG_USB_GADGET is not set

#
# Library routines
#
CONFIG_CRC32=m

#
# Kernel hacking
#
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is not set
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP is not set
# CONFIG_KGDB is not set
CONFIG_XMON=y
# CONFIG_BDI_SWITCH is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set
CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT=y

#
# Security options
#
# CONFIG_SECURITY is not set

#
# Cryptographic options
#
# CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set