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gringo
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 Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject: switching to libata (solved) |
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Hello all,
as im apparently too stupid to do the switch myself im asking for some input about switching to the new libata based driver in my powerbook.
What i tried so far was :
- compile a new kernel with libata support
- try to boot the new kernel by adding root=/dev/sdXY
After doing this all i get is a black screen after OF and it doesnt look like the box is doing anything after this step. If i disable KMS the result is the same with the difference that i get a white screen instead of a black one after OF.
I did not modify yaboot.conf or fstab, i suppose this has to be done once you are running a "libata enabled" kernel.
Box is up to date as of today (~ppc).
I have read some threads in this forums but im quite sure im missing sth. obvious here.
So, can someone provide a step by step guide to get this working pls. ?
TIA
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dmpogo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: switching to libata |
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| gringo wrote: | Hello all,
as im apparently too stupid to do the switch myself im asking for some input about switching to the new libata based driver in my powerbook.
What i tried so far was :
- compile a new kernel with libata support
- try to boot the new kernel by adding root=/dev/sdXY
After doing this all i get is a black screen after OF and it doesnt look like the box is doing anything after this step. If i disable KMS the result is the same with the difference that i get a white screen instead of a black one after OF.
I did not modify yaboot.conf or fstab, i suppose this has to be done once you are running a "libata enabled" kernel.
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well, drives are now called /dev/sdxx rather than /dev/hdxx as you have noticed with the kernel, so fstab entries need to reflect that as well. If you use
direct device names |
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TheLazy1
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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If you haven't already, you need to update ofpath.
There is a sticky just above with details. |
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gringo
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | drives are now called /dev/sdxx rather than /dev/hdxx as you have noticed with the kernel, so fstab entries need to reflect that as well. |
I think the root= kernel parameter should override this so imo it cannot be sth. related to fstab. It doesnt even look i get to init.
| Quote: | If you haven't already, you need to update ofpath.
There is a sticky just above with details. |
i know, thats why im using the latest yaboot in unstable.
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TheLazy1
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Weird, I actually get the same behavior unless I build radeonfb into the kernel.
Without that framebuffer driver nothing seems to work, maybe it's something similar? |
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Massimo B.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Recently I had the same issue and solved it. Remember that you will need a partly modified yaboot.conf for the first step and another modification after first starting with libata.
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gringo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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had access to the powerbook this weekend and made the switch to libata doing sth. similar to what Massimo did.
The thing is that KMS isn´t working, if i have KMS enabled then it doesnt boot at all (apparently), if i disable KMS i get a black screen (obviuosly, there is no other framebuffer device available) until gdm starts, which makes me think that it worked already in first place, i just wasn´t patient enough to wait.
I will try to get a bootlog to see wth is going on, did someone else have a similar problem ?
As a side note, i played around with several things and f.ex. i cannot add
in yaboot.conf, if i do that then the only way is to boot the os manually with the "old" hd,X: reference (??) which makes me think that sth. is screwed up in the devicetree or yaboot ?
EDIT : i was lucky and could get in touch with Benjamin Herrenschmidt. I quote :
| Quote: | That's odd, I wouldn't have used KMS on this in the first place since it
doesn't yet support things like suspend/resume on those machines.
"radeonfb" is normally what you need.
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I know of various issues with KMS on those machines, I've been working
on it a bit but haven't managed to solve them yet. I would recommend
sticking to radeonfb for now with non-modesetting DRM. |
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| Quote: | From an OF standpoint, it's still hd:
libata looking like "scsi" is purely a linux thing. |
thanks Benjamin ! |
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Massimo B.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Hey gringo. Thanks for that information. libata is running now since weeks. Just switching to KMS makes the machine unable to boot.
As you mentioned, KMS seems not to be ready yet (for PPC or libata, or PPC+libata?). I just wonder why x86 people don't have any issue with KMS and libata...
As you told me by PM even 2.6.38 won't solve it and we have to wait for >2.6.38..
Stay tuned...
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gringo
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:48 am Post subject: |
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you´re welcome 
yes, i think the combination libata + KMS is what is screwing up everything. KMS worked before i switched to libata.
I will contact Ben again later this week, probably it´s time to open a bug somewhere and have all the information there.
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Massimo B.
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One note: The combination libata+KMS+Radeon has been reported to work on x86 and amd64. Seems to be ppc specific.
Gringo, I'm not sure if it is recommended to open a ppc bug report and paste Benjamin's upstream notes there...
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gringo
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| Quote: | | Seems to be ppc specific |
sure, i´m only speaking about ppc issues here.
Have already sent an email to Ben, hope he finds some time to answer and can give us some more input.
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You may be running into the AGP bug. I know when I had my PB set up with KMS and libATA, it would lock on boot if I had the AGP setting higher than 1X. As far as I know, this was due to a coherence bug in the memory controller and it was known. I haven't tried KMS recently, but it's still pretty useless for me on PPC without brightness control and sleep.
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Massimo B.
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How do I set AGP factor for boot? I only set that in xorg.conf which is starting a lot later.
Sure, but when the brightness bug is solved and KMS is as fast as without it will become interesting... I do not sleep very often.
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gringo
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| Quote: | | it's still pretty useless for me on PPC without brightness control and sleep. |
yeah, sleep doesnt work but im not sure brightness control didnt work ... probably im wrong but i think it worked last time i tried.
That said, i really dont care about none of them, i rarely use this pb.
| Quote: | | You may be running into the AGP bug |
could we have some more background on this, i googled but wasnt able to find anything relevant.
| Quote: | | it would lock on boot if I had the AGP setting higher than 1X |
i have no acces to my pb until the weekend but how do you control agp rate at boot time ? is this possible with OF maybe ?
In my case at least i dont have any xorg.conf and the agp rate gets set automagically once the x server is launched.
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