unreliably booting off a BCM5701.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Stefan Reinauer <stepan at suse.de> writes:

> * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [040324 00:34]:
> > Ok that is peculiar.  2.6.5rc1 has some patches to head.S which possibly
> > accounts for it as soon as I have a moment I will check and see if
> > that is what breaks it.  From the looks the changes to head.S should
> > not break anything....
>  
> Ok. I'll try to investigate this later, but apparently these changes
> seem to influence the situation.

2.6.5rc3 has been tested and works here...
  
> > > No memtest yet, but filo and etherboot, and linux kernel 2.4 - When they
> > > get loaded, they seem to work seamlessly...
> > 
> > So the etherboot and filo issues were resolved?
>  
> They start fine. The issues I had are still there, though. I'll build a
> memtest86 and do some testing...
> 
> > > 5.3.recent?
> > 
> > 5.3.x is the development version, and there is some major development
> > going on there to implement pxe support so I don't know what is
> > going on.
> 
> Ok, I'll try going back. Can you recommend a certain version?

Any 5.2 should be fine.

Eric