Bug#404951: sb1-bcm91250a kernel does not boot
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:36:07PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:16:06PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Martin Michlmayr a écrit :
> > > * Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> [2009-09-09 21:26]:
> > >> What's the status? Is is still broken?
> > >
> > > 2.6.30 in unstable should work fine now. Aurelien, can you confirm?
> >
> > It doesn't work. There are some changes needed to make it working:
> > - There are missing patches in Linus' tree, linux-mips.org tree should
> > be used instead.
> > - The IDE controller is replaced with the PATA controller which changes
> > the name of the drive.
> > - A patch is needed to make the IDE controller working wrt to CPU caches.
> >
> > In short it's not very easy to get it working within the debian package.
>
> Does it work with 2.6.32?
>
The patch is still needed. Modules support in 2.6.31 was also broken, I
haven't found time to check how it behaves in 2.6.32.
There is still a lot of work to get the support for bcm91250a in the
debian kernel packages, but I'll try to work on that.
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