Re: misc. PPC patches for 2.3.45

From: Paul Mackerras (paulus@linuxcare.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 18:09:42 EST


On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Hadess wrote:

> I tweaked this little patch this night, it _should_ fix problems with:

Thanks. I'll try it on a few different machines and check it in to the
ppc/linux bitkeeper tree (assuming it looks OK).

> - flush_icache_page not being defined

(It's a pity Linus didn't put in the patch against 2.3.45-pre2 that I
sent him, it had a definition of flush_icache_page, though not the best one
as it turned out.)

> However chances are that I broke something else because my computer
> stops on:
> request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted

It's looking for an IDE disk for the root partition. Did you make the IDE
driver a module perhaps? You can't do that if your root partition is on
an IDE disk.

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