Re: booting linux-3.3 or linux 3.4 on an SGI O2?

[Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>]

On 06/05/2012 3:08 PM, David Daney wrote:
> On 06/05/2012 12:00 PM, Jim Faulkner wrote:
>> Hi all, I haven't been able to boot any kernels after linux 3.2 on my
>> SGI O2.  I've tried linux-3.3.5 and linux-3.4.0, but neither would boot.
>> Unfortunately I don't have further information such as a kernel panic,
>> since I don't get any video output after the kernel is loaded.  I've
>> attached my linux-3.4 .config.  Anybody know what patches I might need
>> to get the latest kernels booting on this system?
>>
> 
> I have had problems as well.
> 
> Someone should configure a serial console and early printk to see if they
> can see what is happening.

Early printk on O2 systems probably has the same issues as on IP22/IP28
where it's overwriting PROM memory somewhere.  The system will hang very
early in the bootmem allocator if you kludge early printk to work on these
systems:

System Maintenance Menu

1) Start System
2) Install System Software
3) Run Diagnostics
4) Recover System
5) Enter Command Monitor

Option? 5
Command Monitor.  Type "exit" to return to the menu.
> $ba
Setting $netaddr to 192.168.1.12 (from server )
Obtaining  from server
5305628+400900 entry: 0x80009920
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 3.4.4-mipsgit-20120623 (root@helcaraxe) (gcc version 4.6.2
(Gentoo 4.6.2 p1.3, pie-0.5.0) ) #2 Sat Jun 23 15:20:20 EDT 2012
ARCH: SGI-IP32
PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 1 Revision 10
CRIME id a rev 1 at 0x0000000014000000
CRIME MC: bank 0 base 0x0000000000000000 size 128MiB
CRIME MC: bank 1 base 0x0000000008000000 size 128MiB
CRIME MC: bank 2 base 0x0000000050000000 size 128MiB
CRIME MC: bank 3 base 0x0000000058000000 size 128MiB
bootconsole [early0] enabled
CPU revision is: 00002733 (RM7000)
FPU revision is: 00002720
Checking for the multiply/shift bug... no.
Checking for the daddiu bug... no.
Determined physical RAM map:
 memory: 0000000010000000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
 memory: 0000000010000000 @ 0000000050000000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
  Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x00060000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
Early memory PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00010000
    0: 0x00050000 -> 0x00060000


I tried chasing this down once, years ago, and it was triggered by a pointer
to a function in a struct suddenly becoming NULL.  That was back in 2.6.15
(or .14?), so no idea if the same issue is causing it.  Most likely.

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

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