From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:16:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from bender.bawue.de ([193.7.176.20]:50308 "EHLO bender.bawue.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20037767AbWHGKQ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:16:26 +0100 Received: from lagash (mipsfw.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bender.bawue.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37F644872; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:15:48 +0200 (MEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GA23E-0001HO-NE; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:09:36 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:09:36 +0100 To: Yoichi Yuasa Cc: Kishore K , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Problem booting malta with 2.4.33-rc1 Message-ID: <20060807100936.GD4383@networkno.de> References: <20060807181020.37d94241.yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060807181020.37d94241.yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 From: Thiemo Seufer Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 12224 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Yoichi Yuasa wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:01:43 +0530 > "Kishore K" wrote: > > > Hi, > > When trying to bring up Malta (4KC) board with 2.4.33-rc1 from linux-mips, > > the kernel crashes. Boot log is enclosed along with this mail. I am using > > the tool chain based on gcc 3.3.6, uClibc-0.9.27, binutils 2.14.90.0.8. > > When the same tool chain is used for 2.4.31 kernel, the board comes up > > without any issues. > > > > Observed the same issue with tool chain based on gcc 3.4.4, uClibc-0.9.28, > > binutils 2.15.94. Same result is observed even with Malta 24KEC and > > 2.4.33-rc1 kernel. > > > > Does any one observe the same behaviour ? Am I missing something obvious > > here ? > > I have seen the same problem with gcc 3.4.4 mipssde-6.03.01-20051114 and > binutils 2.15.94 mipssde-6.03.01-20051114 with 2.6.6 kernel. > gcc 3.3.2 and binutils 2.14.90.0.8 20040114 has no problem with same kernel. Linux 2.4 has known issues with gcc 3.4 and higher, gcc 3.3 is the last recommended version. The Malta configuration was fixed at some point to work with 3.4, other configurations weren't. The usual recommendation is an upgrade to a reasonably recent Linux 2.6. :-) Thiemo