From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:12:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rrcs-64-183-102-11.west.biz.rr.com ([64.183.102.11]:55498 "EHLO jg555.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20021759AbXCHQMV (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:12:21 +0000 Received: from [192.168.55.157] ([::ffff:192.168.55.157]) (AUTH: PLAIN root, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by jg555.com with esmtp; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:11:17 -0800 id 00340293.45F035A5.00003B40 Message-ID: <45F0359A.105@jg555.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:11:06 -0800 From: Jim Gifford User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Franck Bui-Huu CC: Ralf Baechle , Linux MIPS List Subject: Re: Building 64 bit kernel on Cobalt References: <45EB53D5.8060007@jg555.com> <20070304232731.GA25039@linux-mips.org> <45EFA92C.3070203@jg555.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 14396 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: maillist@jg555.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Hi, > > On 3/8/07, Jim Gifford wrote: >> Ralf Baechle wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:18:45PM -0800, Jim Gifford wrote: >> > >> > >> >> Last working Kernel was 2.6.19 series. >> >> > > It seems that I broke things again :( > >> >> Some changes from 2.6.19 and the 2.6.20 make it impossible to >> build a 64 >> >> bit kernel to boot on the cobalt. Ya, I know why, building a N32 >> >> actually but need a 64 bit kernel in order to do that. Anyone got any >> >> suggestions. Looking through the difference between the kernels to >> >> figure this out, but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. >> Any >> >> suggestions as to a starting point? >> >> >> > >> > Try git-bisect to track down the changeset that broke things. >> > >> > Ralf >> > >> > >> We got it nailed down to arch/mips/kernel /setup.c. But we have not >> isolated which change is actually causing it. >> > > Do you use any initrd ? If so how do you pass its address to the kernel ? No. > > What is your kernel load address ? Not sure > > can you send your .config file you're using ? I'll send it to you later, since I'm not at the office right now. > >> We do know that reverting back to the 2.6.19.x arch/mips/kernel /setup.c >> will fix the issue. We will continue to dwindle it down until we come up >> with the offender. >> >> > > What did the console say ? If nothing early console may help if > available. All I get is this inflate: decompressing elf64: 00080000 - 0037701f (ffffffff.80326000) (ffffffff.80000000) elf64: ffffffff.80080000 (80080000) 2957446t + 151450t net: interface down > > thanks