Re: 2.6.24-rc1 freezes on powerbook at first boot stage

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
Elimar Riesebieter told:

[...]
> The kernel is loaded from firmware but freezes at the moment to load
> the radeon framebuffer. I can't get any debug info (don't know
> how?).

Screen dump till freeze:

Using PowerMac machine description
Total memory = 1024MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at cfe00000)
Linux version 2.6.24-rc1-aragorn (riesebie@aragorn) (gcc version 4.2.3 20071014 (prelelease) (Debian 4.2.2-3)) #1 Wed Oct 24 12:48:27 CEST 2007
Found UniNorth memory controller & host bridge @ 0xf8000000 revision: 0xd2
Mapped at 0xfdfc0000
Found a Intrepid mac-io controller, rev: 0, mapped at 0xfdf40000
PowerMac motherboard: PowerBook G4 15"
console [udbg0] enabled
setup_arch: bootmem
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0x00000000f0000000. Firmware bus number: 0->1
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0x00000000f2000000. Firmware bus number: 0->1
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0x00000000f4000000. Firmware bus number: 0->1
via-pmu: Server Mode is disabled
PMU driver v2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c
nvram: Checking bank 0...
nvram: gen0=741, gen1=740
nvram: Active bank is: 0
nvram: OF partition at 0x410
nvram: XP partition at 0x1020
nvram: NR partition at 0x1120
arch: exit
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->   196608
  Normal     196608 ->   196608
  HighMem    196608 ->   262144
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->   262144
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order.  Total pages: 260096
Kernel command line: root=/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:5 root=/dev/hda5
mpic: Setting up MPIC " MPIC 1   " version 1.2 at 80040000, max 4 CPUs
mpic: ISU size: 64, shift: 6, mask: 3f
mpic: Initializing for 64 sources
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
GMT Delta read from XPRAM: 0 minutes, DST: off
clocksource: timebase mult[d9038e4] shift [22] registered
clockevent: decremeter mult[4b7] shift[16] cpu[0]
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console handover: boot [udbg0] -> real [tty0]

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