On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:08 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Well, in that case it looks like a real bug, then. Disassemble > > i2c_smbus_write_byte_data and try to figure out why it crashes there ... > > I think it crashes because the sound driver is stupid and tries to tap > an i2c bus before it was bound to one at all, thus dereferences NULL... > Should work if you make sure the i2c driver is loaded first. The problem > was introduced in part because of the driver name change (i2c-keywest -> > i2c-powermac) since the sound driver explicitely tries to load > i2c-keywest and wasn't properly updated. Thus you need to load > i2c-powermac yourself or have it built-in (I recommend the later).
The kernel uploaded yesterday to debian archive have indeed the problem. What should I do to load first the i2c driver ? By the way, i didn't manage to build a recent softmac+bcm43xx snapshot with the debian 2.6.16-1-powerpc kernel Well it builds fine but don't load: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sudo modprobe bcm43xx [~] WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211softmac (/lib/modules/2.6.16-1-powerpc/kernel/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) FATAL: Error inserting bcm43xx (/lib/modules/2.6.16-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx.ko): Invalid module format Dmesg tail: ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7 ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ieee80211softmac: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan ieee80211softmac: Unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan ieee80211softmac: disagrees about version of symbol free_ieee80211 ieee80211softmac: Unknown symbol free_ieee80211 ieee80211softmac: disagrees about version of symbol ieee80211_tx_frame ieee80211softmac: Unknown symbol ieee80211_tx_frame ieee80211softmac: disagrees about version of symbol alloc_ieee80211 ieee80211softmac: Unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211 bcm43xx: no version magic, tainting kernel. Module doesn't contain .plt or .init.plt sections. Patching a (vanilla) kernel with a snapshot, everything runs fine, I'll try to build a debian kernel with my own .config, and see what's going on. -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
