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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Omkhar Arasaratnam <iamroot@ca.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.11- sym53c8xx Broken on pp64
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Omkhar Arasaratnam wrote:
> 
> I confirmed that this occurs with the 2.6.11 code straight from 
> kernel.org Here is an error from the bringup:

So if 2.6.9 works, and 2.6.11 does not, can you check 2.6.10? And perhaps 
hunt it down even more, to a -rc release?

> sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-80 LVD, parity checking
> CACHE TEST FAILED: DMA error (dstat=0xa0) .sym0: CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED
> sym0: giving up ...

There are certainly sym changes in there too since 2.6.9, let's see if 
James or Willy have any suggestions. It might not be ppc64-specific.

		Linus