For those interested in PPC boards, I just managed to get the briQ talking over serial console. (More on the board at http://www.totalimpact.com/products/the_briq/the_briq.html). Output below.
Hopefully we'll demo this board running Clustermatic at the USENIX BOF.
Greg
Board initialized... LinuxBIOS-1.1.6 Fri Jun 4 16:13:35 MDT 2004 rebooting... Finding PCI configuration type. Enumerating static devices... Enumerating buses... PCI: pci_scan_bus for bus 0 PCI: 00:00.0 [1014/0105] enabled PCI: 00:06.0 [10ad/0565] ops PCI: 00:06.0 [10ad/0565] enabled PCI: 00:06.1 [10ad/0105] ops PCI: 00:06.1 [10ad/0105] enabled PCI: 00:07.0 [1022/2000] enabled PCI: pci_scan_bus returning with max=00 done Allocating resources... ASSIGN RESOURCES, bus 0 PCI: 00:06.1 10 <- [0x00001040 - 0x00001047] io PCI: 00:06.1 14 <- [0x00001050 - 0x00001053] io PCI: 00:06.1 18 <- [0x00001048 - 0x0000104f] io PCI: 00:06.1 1c <- [0x00001054 - 0x00001057] io PCI: 00:06.1 20 <- [0x00001020 - 0x0000102f] io PCI: 00:06.1 24 <- [0x00001030 - 0x0000103f] io PCI: 00:07.0 10 <- [0x00001000 - 0x0000101f] io PCI: 00:07.0 14 <- [0xfebfffe0 - 0xfebfffff] mem ASSIGNED RESOURCES, bus 0 done. Enabling resourcess... PCI: 00:00.0 cmd <- 147 PCI: 00:06.0 cmd <- 147 PCI: 00:06.1 cmd <- 145 PCI: 00:07.0 cmd <- 143 done. Initializing devices... PCI: 00:06.0 init Configure W83C553F ISA Bridge (Function 0) W83C553F configuration complete PCI: 00:06.1 init Configure W83C553F IDE (Function 1) ide bus offset = 0x1f1 IDE configuration complete Devices initialized totalram: 1024M Initializing CPU #0 PowerPC 7400 CPU, version 2.9 CPU #0 Initialized Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000010 - 00000174 checksum 9bf0
Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.3
Trying polled ide Waiting for ide disks to spin up This is a hard coded delay and longer than necessary. .. found PCI IDE controller 10ad:0105 prog_if=0x8f primary channel: native PCI mode