RE: BUG 2.6.7 hangs on boot (rx2600)

Chen, Kenneth W
2004-06-29T18:19:34Z

Jesse Barnes wrote on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:14 AM
> > > > > I tried both of these on a machine that doesn't have memory at the
> > > > > stock kernel load address, and it failed very early on. However, it
> > > > > works with the attached patch.
> > > >
> > > > Let me confirm what I understand:
> > > > David's bk tree doesn't boot.
> > > > David's bk tree + 2 patches I posted this morning doesn't boot.
> > > >
> > > > Is that correct?
> > >
> > > Correct. David's tree hangs at a later point though, after printing
> > > "Console: ... 80x25".
> >
> > I presume David's bk tree plus this patch also hung on your machine?
> > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0406/10162.html
>
> Yep. It gets as far as David's tree plus your patches from this morning.

Looks like there are more places where kernel does "virt -> phys -> virt".
And conversion from phys to virt is setting 3 msb to 1.

- Ken