From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:09:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:13769 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20038840AbWKWOJY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:09:24 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kANE9FbX028874; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:09:17 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id kANE9EIu028873; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:09:14 GMT Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:09:14 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Andre.Messerschmidt@infineon.com Cc: ashlesha@kenati.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: init cannot spawn shell Message-ID: <20061123140914.GA24273@linux-mips.org> References: <1164246953.6511.25.camel@sandbar.kenati.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13247 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 07:45:25AM +0100, Andre.Messerschmidt@infineon.com wrote: > > I m sure that the endianness is not an issue - everything is big > > endian. > > We had some problem in the past, where the reverse endianess bit was > set, that would result in a crash when the system starts init. Not sure > what bootloader you are using, but maybe it is worth checking the RE bit > in CP0.STATUS, since otherwise your userspace applications will run in > little endian. This was fixed in February for 2.6.16 already. Also Ashleha is using a different CPU ... Ralf