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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: kalyan tejaswi <kalyanatejaswi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Oops with kernel 2.6.8
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:57:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071102125753.GB14106@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dd3c65d0711012245r4a1f2061r126d34a907b640cd@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:15:51AM +0530, kalyan tejaswi wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am using Malta-4Kc with kernel 2.6.8(from linux-mips.org) compiled with
> gcc 3.4.4.
> 
> I can not boot over NFS.
> 
> The console log is attached.
> 
> Any hints are greatly appreciated.

2.6.8 is really old, over 3 years now.  So forgive if memory of the bugs
in that kernel is fading.  I think the one you're seeing was was caused
by memory prefetching beyond the end of memory.  The easy fix is to disable
prefetching.  See a  modern memcpy for how to do that.  There are several
other interesting issues hidden in 2.6.8 so I think you really should
upgrade.

  Ralf

      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-02 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-02  5:45 Oops with kernel 2.6.8 kalyan tejaswi
2007-11-02 12:57 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]

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