sungem module causes oops on XServe G5

[James Troup]

modprobe sungem on an XServe G5 causes a kernel oops. This is particularly
unfortunate because both discover and hotplug think there's a sungem in these
machines and tries to modprobe it during d-i and on reboot into the new system.

[James Troup (elmo)]

Created an attachment (id=789)
sungem modprobe oops

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

There actually _is_ a sungem in those machines, is there not? That's the driver
used on the powerpc I have here, too (but it doesn't oops).

We decided (bug#10754) that we should be using a ppc64 kernel on these machines;
have you tried that?

[James Troup (elmo)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> There actually _is_ a sungem in those machines, is there not? That's the driver
> used on the powerpc I have here, too (but it doesn't oops).

Ok, sorry, you're right - lspci says there is. But as far as I can tell, it's
unused as the two NICs which actually have external RJ45 ports on these machines
are actually the Tigon3's.

> We decided (bug#10754) that we should be using a ppc64 kernel on these machines;
> have you tried that?

No, not yet.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Is this still a problem with the latest kernel in Hoary? I seem to recall that
an XServe was included in your recent round of tests, and I don't remember you
mentioning this bug.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Almost a year since reporting, and no follow up to the report. I'm going to
assume this is fixed.