From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:14:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from alpha.total-knowledge.com ([IPv6:::ffff:205.217.158.170]:2796 "EHLO alpha.total-knowledge.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:14:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 11475 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2005 00:49:26 -0800 Received: from c-24-6-216-150.client.comcast.net (HELO ?192.168.0.238?) (24.6.216.150) by alpha.total-knowledge.com with SMTP; 6 Mar 2005 00:49:26 -0800 Message-ID: <422B5676.7090207@total-knowledge.com> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:13:58 -0800 From: "Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" Organization: Total Knowledge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041221 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederic TEMPORELLI CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: SGI IP32 and 2.6.11 References: <422B3C74.9090706@laposte.net> In-Reply-To: <422B3C74.9090706@laposte.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 7384 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: ilya@total-knowledge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips There is no such thing as 64M DIMM for O2. Put correct memory into your machine and both of these problems will be solved. Frederic TEMPORELLI wrote: > Hello, > > I've just been able to start 2.6.11 from my own compilation on IP32. > > Can I have some help about following problems/comments ? > > 1/ It was really difficult because kernel was falling in breakpoint > call (BUG macro) in free_bootmem_core. > => I've successfully try to comment this BUG macro in > free_bootmem_core (bootmem.c) > Of course, I'm thinking this is really sad... but I've a really poor > knowledge in kernel development... > may someone can explain how to solve such issue in a better way ? > This breakpoint was boring me since 2.6.10... > > 2/ There's also a problem with ip32-memory.c, which isn't able to > detect 64MB dimm. > Yet, not enough knowledge for processing bankctl (prom_meminit) in the > nice way for detecting 64MB dimms... > (All memory slots are used on my O2: slots 1 to 6 with 32MB dimms and > slots 7 & 8 with 64MB dimms) . > > Best regards > > Frederic TEMPORELLI > > > -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh Total Knowledge. CTO http://www.total-knowledge.com