Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 04:57:00 +0100 | From | Hadess <> | Subject | Re: misc. PPC patches for 2.3.45 |
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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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