From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from jenny.ondioline.org (jenny.ondioline.org [66.220.1.122]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F0DDDF1F for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:23:45 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Collins To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops) References: <200703051414.15802.frafore@tiscali.it> <1173143894.3461.240.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:53:22 +1300 In-Reply-To: <1173143894.3461.240.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (David Woodhouse's message of "Tue\, 06 Mar 2007 01\:18\:14 +0000") Message-ID: <87tzwzqgrx.fsf@briny.internal.ondioline.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: francesco foresti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , David Woodhouse writes: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:13 +0100, francesco foresti wrote: >> Hi, >> i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not >> patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): >> i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the >> second one because the other slips offscreen before i can see what's going >> on. However, this is what i have been able to hand-copy: >> >> kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:610! >> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#2] [snipped] > I've been seeing very similar behaviour with 2.6.20 on all pmac32 > hardware. I haven't yet tried hard to reproduce on non-pmac. In case it's of interest, 2.6.20 has been running fine on my PowerBook5,4. -- Paul Collins Wellington, New Zealand Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood