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From: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bug] 2.6.39-rc3 fails to boot on Alpha
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:52:00 -0400
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To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
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Try replacing the reference to "no_irq_chip" with "dummy_irq_chip"
in arch/alpha/irq_alpha.c: int_rtc_irq().

For me, it was dying in the first RTC interrupt taken.

Jay

On 04/17/2011 11:13 AM, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 2.6.39-rc3 doesn't boot on my Alpha (XP900).  As soon as aboot has loaded
> and started the kernel I get:
> 
> halted CPU 0
> 
> halt code = 4
> invalid PTBR
> PC = fffffc00003130d0
> 
> (that PC value points to an "lda" instruction in sys_osf_proplist_syscall)
> 
> There's no other output except this, so I don't think the kernel got very far.
> 
> Haven't checked 2.6.39-rc[12] or bisected anything yet, but 2.6.38 works fine.
> 
> /Mikael
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