Re: misc. PPC patches for 2.3.45

From: Hadess (hadess@writeme.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 22:57:00 EST


Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Hadess wrote:
>
> > I tweaked this little patch this night, it _should_ fix problems with:
>
> Thanks. I'll try it on a few different machines and check it in to the
> ppc/linux bitkeeper tree (assuming it looks OK).
>
> > - flush_icache_page not being defined
>
> (It's a pity Linus didn't put in the patch against 2.3.45-pre2 that I
> sent him, it had a definition of flush_icache_page, though not the best one
> as it turned out.)

Was it the same as the one I used ? As I understood, PPC don't need
flush_icache_page to do anything because of their special cache
handling.

>
> > However chances are that I broke something else because my computer
> > stops on:
> > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
>
> It's looking for an IDE disk for the root partition. Did you make the IDE
> driver a module perhaps? You can't do that if your root partition is on
> an IDE disk.

Heh, I checked three times before complaining about but, no, IDE is not
a module. It might be because of the changes I made to pmac-ide. I think
ide drives don't get properly initialized (the ide bus is checked sooner
for dma). I'll dig more into that.

Thanks

-- 
/Hadess

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