From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:31:34 -0800 Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.146]:49649 "EHLO dhcp046.distro.conectiva") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:31:25 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:05 -0200 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:05 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Ian Chilton Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Current CVS Kernel Broken on MIPS (010111 - 2.4.0) Message-ID: <20010111212005.C894@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010111225700.A2473@woody.ichilton.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010111225700.A2473@woody.ichilton.co.uk>; from ian@ichilton.co.uk on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:57:01PM +0000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:57:01PM +0000, Ian Chilton wrote: > > Such a pile of numbers is pretty useless for debuggin unless accompanied > > with the disassembler listing of the crashing code, System.map or even > > better the kernel binary itself ... > > Sorry, I forgot..: > > http://files.ichilton.co.uk/linux-010111-IP22-4400.tar.gz > > > It's all in there, ELF + ECOFF + System.map It's a crash during the very early initialization of the kernel, that is before trap_init() gets called. __alloc_bootmem_core calls memset with bogus addresses and that again crashes. Not very much else I can read from this crash and not very much I can do without an Indy ... Ralf