Re: Xilinx FX60

["Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On 9/18/07, Robert Woodworth <rwoodworth@securics.com> wrote:
> I'm back trying to get the kernel on my Xilinx FX60 without success.
> Now I have more information:
>
> Using the Xilinx GDB, I'm getting either a "Bad Page fault exception" or
> a kernel "oops"
>
> The text in the _log_buf is as follows:
> (this happens before serial console init)
>
> Data machine check in kernel mode..
> Oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1].
> <register dump>
>
>
>
> Any Ideas what would cause this?  Memory problem?
> I've run several different embedded memory test programs on the PPC and
> they all pass fine.

You might still be having memory issues.  Memory tests in general
don't hit memory as hard and fast as running code with caches enabled.

>
> I've synthesized my FX60 with the exact same memory map as my FX12 on
> the ML403 and used the same kernel config.  ML403 works great.

>
> The only difference is that the FX60 board only has 32MB DDR, I have
> made sure that the correct memory size is in the kernel.

How are you booting your kernel?  .ace? u-boot? load via debugger?

Cheers,
g.

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