Re: Can't boot 2.6.30 powerpc kernel under qemu.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 07:11:23 EST


On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 10:24 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:34 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Which suggested that the problem was the new CONFIG_PPC_OF_BOOT_TRAMPOLINE
> > symbol wasn't set, and once I switched that on it started working again.
>
> What defconfig are you using? It sounds like maybe something should be
> 'select'ing OF_BOOT_TRAMPOLINE.

Right, pmac, pseries and chrp probably ... though I don't like select
for a user-visible option, I'd rather fix things if I inadvertently
forgot the "default y" here, after all, one may want to do a minimum
kdump kernel without prom_init.c in it.

Cheers,
Ben.

>
> > > linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the one you want for this:
> > >
> > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
> >
> > Cool! Is there a reason it's hidden? (Or at least not listed in either
> > vger.kernel.org's list info page or in the "Maling lists" page linked from
> > ozlabs.org's top level web page.) Just curious, I couldn't find it when I
> > looked in the obvious (to me) places.
>
> It's not hidden, it's just in the process of moving from ozlabs.org to
> lists.ozlabs.org - and it's a bit hard to find in the process. I've
> updated the ozlabs.org page to point to it in the meantime.
>
> It's also in maintainers :D
>
> LINUX FOR POWERPC (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)
> P: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> M: benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> P: Paul Mackerras
> M: paulus@xxxxxxxxx
> W: http://www.penguinppc.org/
> L: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git
> S: Supported
>
>
> cheers
> _______________________________________________
> Linuxppc-dev mailing list
> Linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

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