Re: OF default catch on grub2 on 43p-260

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Chris Abbey wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:35 am, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
> > From the OF prompt, before you boot GRUB, could you do the following 
> > and
> > send the output:
> >         0 > dev /address@hidden
> >         0 > .properties
> > In particular, the "available" property is the one I'm interested in. 
> > That
> > will tell us what areas of memory are considered free...
> 0 > dev /address@hidden
>  ok
> 0 > .properties
> name                    memory
> device_type             memory
> reg                     00000000  40000000
> available               00004000 00bfc000 01400000 3ec00000
> #address-cells          00000001
> #size-cells             00000000
> 0 > boot floppy:,grubof.mod debug=all
> Failed to claim heap at 0x4000, len 0x1fb000
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00700 at   %SRR0: 00206090   %SRR1: 00023000
>  ok
> 0 >
>
> So If I'm reading that correctly, there is 0x00bfc000 bytes availabel 
> at an
> offest of 0x00004000, since grub is asking for 0x001fb000, and that is 
> less
> than 0x00bfc000... I don't get why it's failing.

Me neither. In the source, could you try adjusting the 0x4000 (it's 
hardcoded in kern/powerpc/ieee1275/init.c) to 0x5000 or 0x8000 or 
something?

-Hollis