From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chen, Kenneth W" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:23:49 +0000 Subject: RE: gate.S and recent toolchains Message-Id: <200603291823.k2TIN4g09945@unix-os.sc.intel.com> List-Id: References: <442AB0DE.1040409@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <442AB0DE.1040409@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Jes Sorensen wrote on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:03 AM >>>> Basically I am unable to build a kernel from Linus' git tree on one >>>> system since Monday morning, whereas it boots fine if I build it on an >>>> older system. I tried installing an older toolchain on this box but it >>>> still didn't seem to make a difference. The system boots, calls init and >>>> I most often get the message "INIT: 2.85 booting", then a hang. In some >>>> instances I don't even get the INIT message. >>> It builds and boots on all the machines I have tried, >>> including the same build and boot machines Jes uses. >>> Jes can't get it to work, I can't get it to fail. >> >> Russ, do you reference __mca_table at run time? It looks like so. It's >> problematic that __mca_table is in __init section. Though I doubt that >> was the reason Jes ran into. > >I actually noticed that earlier and tried moving it around, but it made >no difference. I forgot it again in the noise. That's what I thought as well, very unlikely it is the issue you ran into. - Ken