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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:57:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172523468.3560.2.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35684e789e5c2447eab393c8946efcb9@bga.com>

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:44 -0600, Milton Miller wrote:
> Any chance you are using one of the unusal code paths, like the 
> bootloader moving the initrd or using a kernel crash region?

I'm doing nothing special. And I'm less sure now about the trigger. I
built a Fedora 7 test 2 install tree with the patch reverted, and
managed to boot and install.... but now when I boot the _same_ machine
with the same CD, it fails. 

Now I'm starting to wonder if it's something the firmware sets up to DMA
to a certain region of memory, which makes it non-deterministic. And the
other things we're blaming are only making a difference because they
change the layout of what we have in memory.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-26 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200612112059.kBBKx1j7022473@hera.kernel.org>
2007-02-26  0:00 ` Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough David Woodhouse
2007-02-26  0:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26  0:45     ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26  1:17     ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26  3:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26  4:01         ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26  4:13           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 16:24             ` David Woodhouse
2007-02-26  6:59           ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-02-26 15:53           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-26 16:00             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-26 16:44           ` Milton Miller
2007-02-26 20:57             ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-02-26 21:17               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-27  6:46                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-26 15:51       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-26 20:51         ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-26 19:27   ` john stultz
2007-02-26 22:27     ` Paul TBBle Hampson
2007-02-27  6:48       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-27 11:58         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-28  6:43           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-28 10:13             ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-01  0:30               ` Michael Ellerman
2007-03-12 23:01                 ` Paul TBBle Hampson
2007-03-13  3:03                   ` Kumar Gala
2007-03-13  7:03                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-16  7:20                     ` Paul TBBle Hampson

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