From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:03:14 +0000 Subject: Re: gate.S and recent toolchains Message-Id: <442ACBE2.4090605@sgi.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 Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > Russ Anderson wrote on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:51 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. Hi Ken, I actually noticed that earlier and tried moving it around, but it made no difference. I forgot it again in the noise. Cheers, Jes