[Prism54-users] Re: Kernel oopses

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 02:14, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've had some non reproducable kernel oopses on my Apple 15" AlPB.
> There is a SMC2835W wifi card running with the drivers from prism54.
> Ok, I compiled in the latest ones into the 2.6.3-ben(1|2) kernels
> and had no problems with the card itself but some kernel oopses. So
> I figured out the 2.6.2 kernel on my machine, where no oopses
> happend. Hmm, the difference was in the version of the prism
> drivers. The 2.6.2 was running with the version of 18.12.2003. Now I
> have 2.6.3-ben2 and 2.6.4-rc1 out of the box running with the Dec.
> version. No more oopses. So, I am not a really good hacker, but it
> must be possible to get big endian drivers work with the ppc-kernel
> tree of Benjamin Herrenschmidt?

The endian is probably unrelated. You should report the oopses
themselves to the drivers maintainers. If we take care of
dumping all these data in the oops, it's for a reason...

Ben.