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Re: crash on startup / high BAT fallout

by Frank Wille :: Rate this Message:

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Michael wrote:

> the attached patch allows -current to boot on my iBook G4, to some
> degree at least. [...]

Good work!

> [...] the other problem was that we tried to map the
> upper 256MB which includes the ROM, which fails now so we only map
> 0xf0000000 - 0xfbffffff.

What I don't understand: why didn't it fail in the past?

> So, this needs to be tested on ofppc and other
> macppc boxes. If you get any (green) kernel putput at all ( as opposed
> to some obscure OF error and no kernel output ) then it worked.

ofppc (Pegasos2) still works fine.

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Frank Wille

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