[PlanetCCRMA] rt kernels, ho, ho, ho!

[paul]

I can confirm that it is the b43 driver that is causing the boot hang. I 
blacklisted the b43 driver module, and then was successful in booting 
the rt kernel.

I am not familiar with the recent changes in the Broadcom firmware. I 
only recall reading that Broadcom had released it as open-source. I will 
need to look into this further. I have a rpm package that contains the 
firmware, that I made for Red Hat 5, but it worked in Fedora 10/11. I 
see if that will work.

Paul

On 01/03/2011 06:04 PM, paul wrote:
> I too cannot seem to boot the rt kernel for Fedora 14. I have a fresh 
> install on an older Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, with a P4 2.8 GHz CPU. 
> I couldn't figure a way to see where it was hanging, so thanks for the 
> tip. I thought that is was hanging at loading cups.
>
> It appears to be hanging after loading the firmware for the on-board 
> Broadcom wireless card. Here are the lines prior to it hanging:
>
> b43 ssb0:0 firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
> Starting cups: b43 ssb0:0: requesting b43-open/ucode5.fw
> b43 ssb0:0 firmware: requesting b43-open/pcm5.fw
> b43 ssb0:0 firmware: requesting b43-open/b0g0initvals5.fw
> b43 ssb0:0 firmware: requesting b43-open/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
> b43-phy0: Loading OpenSource firmware version 410.31754
> b43-phy0: Hardware crypto acceleration not supported by firmware
> b43-phy0: QoS not supported by firmware
>
> This may be a problem with this "open" firmware. Maybe a copy of the 
> original "proprietary" firmware will work. I'll see if I still have a 
> copy laying around. I'll also try blacklisting the b43 module, to see 
> if it boots. This is not a solution, just a test.
>
> Paul
>
> On 01/03/2011 12:22 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> On 01/03/2011 03:30 AM, Donald Steven wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, my system hangs on boot with the rt kernel. Normal 
>>> kernel
>>> (2.6.25.10-74.fc14.x86_64) works fine. CPU is a dual core E8500, F14.
>>> Any ideas?
>> Sorry to hear it is not working. You could try to boot without the
>> graphical boot (remove the "rhgb quiet" part of the kernel boot line) to
>> see where it is hanging...
>>
>> -- Fernando
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 12/24/2010 06:08 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>>> Hi all... a few days ago Thomas Gleixner announced a new version of 
>>>> the
>>>> rt patch for the 2.6.33.7 kernel (rt30).
>>>>
>>>> I built packages based on the last 2.6.33.7 based build in Fedora Koji
>>>> (149) and the rt30 patch. I have been using 149 based builds for a 
>>>> while
>>>> with no problems (other than the well known warnings that rt sometimes
>>>> spews). So this should work fine. Of course if you are happily making
>>>> music with your current kernel there is no need to upgrade.
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