Re: Linux 2.6.3 still doesn't boot on UltraSparc I

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:45:49AM -0500, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:25:02AM -0500, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> > > So backing down to silo < 1.4.0 works with the new head.S on UltraSPARC
> > > I? I don't think the problem itself is in head.S. Changing that would
> > > force silo 1.4.x to not keep the kernel in high memory (would copy it
> > > back down to 0x4000 where the old silo would have put it). I am guessing
> > > the problem is elsewhere.
> > > 
> > > Try this, keep the new head.S and newer SILO, and edit head.S so that
> > > "HdrS version" is 0x202 instead of 0x300. See if that boots for you
> > > (would confirm my suspicion).
> > 
> > It boots correctly this way. What can we do to help now ?
> 
> Can you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOTMEM and boot with "linux -p"?

Here is the output :

boot: linux -p
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000000 for kernel
Kernel doesn't support loading to high memory, relocating done.
Loaded kernel version 2.6.3

PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17
Linux version 2.6.3 (root@ensilinx8) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040125 (prerelease) (Debian)) #4 SMP [...]
ARCH: SUN4U
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.2.4 1996/05/30 11:17
[...]
Looping, had to stop it using Break+A.

The same kernel boots without -p.

Lucas