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List:       linux-parisc
Subject:    SuperStrangeDome
From:       tsbogend () alpha ! franken ! de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
Date:       2009-04-25 8:33:51
Message-ID: 20090425083351.GA5661 () alpha ! franken ! de
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Hi,

I found some spare time to continue hacking Madze's superdome. With
some really strange hacks (see below) I'm now able to see a successful
mount of a root filesystem over NFS, but no sign of userspace yet.

The strange hacks have to do with output to console and timing.
Here is a list of things I've added to get both partitions up to
the point mounting NFS root:

1. add 50 dummy prinkts after print_parisc_devices()
2. do a while (pdc_iodc_getc() != 'a') in iosapic.c after dumping
   Interrupt Routing Table (only needed if DEBUG_IOSAPIC_IRT is
   enabled)
3. do a while (pdc_iodc_getc() != 'b') in lba_hw_init before touching
   anything
4. carefull press a and b during boot. I need to press b for every
   found Elroy. If I'm too fast the partition locks up

Does this ring any bells ? Looks like a very timing sensitive thing,
but what could be the cause of it ?

Thomas.

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