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Hi All…

Whilst building a new netboot image for Cobalt systems, I discovered there’s a bug relating to the PCI handling in the latest kernel ebuild. In short, the pata_via driver is broken out-of-the-box, it’ll complain about being unable to register I/O resources, and the disks will be inaccessible.

To fix — download this patch, and apply it to your source tree using patch -p1 < patchfile, then rebuild your kernel (it’ll take a few seconds). You’ll notice the new kernel should boot successfully.

When Kumba returns, I’ll get him to add it to the mips-sources patchset so this is done automatically.

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