From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF874836 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:50:09 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 08:49:54 -0700 From: Randolph Chung To: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] kdb_v21 branch updated to -pa26, and kallsyms cross-compile Message-ID: <20020604154954.GA29187@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung References: <20020529110118.A3691@systemhalted> <20020529162438.GJ9919@tykepenguin.com> <20020529132631.B3691@systemhalted> <20020529180739.GL9919@tykepenguin.com> <20020530143626.GF810@tykepenguin.com> <20020530133515.B15631@systemhalted> <20020531072849.GD1145@tykepenguin.com> <20020531085419.B18658@systemhalted> <20020604115547.GB1808@tykepenguin.com> <20020604084440.A24973@systemhalted> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20020604084440.A24973@systemhalted> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > I think there are two maybe three places where kdb initializes > certain structures during startup. I'm going to have to check > those paths to see how far it gets before dying. > > Any comments from the crowd would be helpfull :) > > /me goes off to add some printk's and extra check i've been offline for a bit so i might have missed something... but aiui the symptom you've been seeing is that it hangs at the "If this is the last message you see" message? has anyone tried to compile a kernel with early bootup messages (there's a #define in pdc_cons.c to enable this) and see if they get farther? there are some debugging stuff that you can turn on in arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c ... that piece of code has caused some hangs in the past, you might want to enable those printks as well. randolph -- @..@ http://www.TauSq.org/ (----) ( >__< ) ^^ ~~ ^^