From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian McMenamin Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:49:36 +0000 Subject: Re: Kernel fails on Dreamcast - results of bisection Message-Id: <1237722576.6534.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1237675045.27611.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1237675045.27611.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 20:01 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > Please test with it reverted and with no changes to the defconfig. If you > are randomly going to change variables, then the bug report is > speculation at best. If you are going to make config changes at the same > time that you revert changes, you are not debugging the problem at hand. > It is not even worth looking at this until you are sure the same scenario > exists without config changes. > -- I used the same configuration throughout the bisection. So there is a real bug there. There is no speculation involved. Builds before a certain point will boot, builds after do not. And the patch that breaks the kernel is the one I have identified.