Bug 114686

Summary:	Hangs after 'returning from prom_init'
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ferenc Osz <oszfer>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Olaf Hering <ohering>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	RC 1
Hardware:	PowerPC-64
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Ferenc Osz 2005-09-01 12:03:57 UTC

IBM pSeries RS/6000 7025-6F0. Trying to install OpenSuSE Beta3 and 4. Booting
from install CD -- it hangs after 'returning from prom_init' and wants power
cycle. It seems a kernel bug, discussed  at
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.3/1388.html. 

I've got the same problem on Gentoo PPC64 and Fedora PPC64 install (all have
kernels above 2.6.8), but any older linux (e.g. RedHat 7.1 PPC, SLES7 PPC) works
well.

Comment 1 Olaf Hering 2005-09-01 12:42:16 UTC

No, its this patch. yours is a p620 and this patch will likely fix it.

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7fea82ab1a74030f79a2adfac1af3d93b8638fc3

it will not help a p660.

Comment 2 Olaf Hering 2005-09-01 13:02:44 UTC

I have added this change now to our 2.6.13.

+- add patches.arch/ppc64-rs64.patch
+  PPC64: Don't try to claim memory from OF at 1GB mark (114686)