I still have so more to do like verifying FEC and PCI. Also I did it on 2.4 which I believe is done or close to being. I can provide a patch when I am done.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Kegel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:59 AM To: Steven Blakeslee Cc: 'linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org'; 'etux at embeddedtux.org' Subject: Re: good learning experience for Linux Steven Blakeslee wrote: > I sent a message earlier today about getting a "swap_dup: Bad swap file > entry 0e18d55c" error. I found the problem and fixed it and wanted to share > it with people who are still learning this stuff, like myself. > > After 2 days of pounding on my head I found the file > Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt It explained how the file > arch/ppc/kernel/cputable.c has a list of the known powerPC PVRs(processor > version register). The 8248 was not in there so it was using a default > entry. That was the cause of my problems. I added a new entry for the 8248 > and all is working. My lesson was a little research makes things much > nicer. Lesson learned. So, is this already in the latest kernel sources? If not, have you considered sending in a patch? - Dan -- My technical stuff: http://kegel.com My politics: see http://www.misleader.org for examples of why I'm for regime change ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
