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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: wei.li4@elf.mcgill.ca
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Kernel hangs in console_init()
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:19:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4540FC2D.6000403@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061025173304.c57o9tf3go000wc0@webmail.mcgill.ca>

wei.li4@elf.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am working on linux 2.6.18-rc2 with my mpc875 demo board, I used 
> Debugger LEDs to find that kernel stopped in:
> 	while (call < __con_initcall_end) {
> 		(*call)();
> 		call++;
>         }
> which is in console_init() of tty_io.c, what kind of problem could be?
> What's the means of 'bctrl' instruction that I found in its assembler?

It's an indirect function call (i.e. the (*call)(); line) to the address 
specified in the CTR register.  You need to find out the value of *call 
in order to figure out which function is failing.  There are probably 
only a small number of possibilities that are actually configured into 
your kernel (look for console_initcall in files that get built for your 
target).

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 21:33 Kernel hangs in console_init() wei.li4
2006-10-26 18:19 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2006-10-26 20:36   ` Becky Bruce

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