On a Digital Personal Workstation 600au (Miata, as is silkscreened on the motherboard), the stable kernel (2.6.26-gentoo-r2) works perfectly (to the entent I've tried it out, of course) when configured with CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC (selected in "Alpha System Type", option #1), but does not boot with CONFIG_ALPHA_MIATA. It seems that something IDE related is the culprit - I get strange error messages with the IDE cable plugged it, and without it plugged in, it boots to login (but doesn't let my input anything, and serial console doesn't get a login). Messages: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx CY82C693: IDE controller (0x1080:0xc693 rev 0x00) at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 CY82C693: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later CY82C693U driver v0.34 99-13-12 Andreas S. Krebs (akrebs@altavista.net) pci 0000:00:07.2: enabling device (0045 -> 0047) ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9080-0x9087 ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9088-0x908f hda: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6302B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: MWDMA2 mode selected ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 7 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide_generic: please use "probe_mask=0x3f" modules parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports ide_generic: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. ide_generic: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free. ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out hda: lost interrupt ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out hda: lost interrupt ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out hda: lost interrupt HDA: ATAPI 32X CD-rom drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt that last line repeats a few times... and obviously the top is snipped a bit. I made two identical .config files except for this option - one boots, the other doesn't. What are the kernel differences between kernels built with these two options?
What kernel sources did you use? Also, gather all relevant information right here and don't refer to (lengthy, changeable) forums threads.
(In reply to comment #1) > What kernel sources did you use? Also, gather all relevant information right > here and don't refer to (lengthy, changeable) forums threads. > I thought that the "2.6.26-gentoo-r2" was enough for people to figure out I was using gentoo-sources... I believe that this is all the relevant information that I have - I'll post the .config files, but it shouldn't matter too much (since I've narrowed down the culprit).... I'm also going to try vanilla-sources just for fun.
Created attachment 177213 [details] working .config note the CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC
Created attachment 177214 [details] Non-working .config Notice the CONFIG_ALPHA_MIATA
Created attachment 177216 [details] Non-working .config uploaded the wrong file for the last "noconf"
I've done a minimal install on my Miata and built a kernel with your (failing) config. The bug happens here, too. Unfortunately, I can't use this machine to actually hunt down the bug. I'll CC kernel@g.o, see what they think.
As this is a kernel and not a gentoo-specific bug, I recommend opening a bug in the kernel bugtracker (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/) and/or writing to lkml.
