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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arve@android.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:46:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090125224625.96429d3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i4rjw38.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu>

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:53:31 +0100 Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running 2.6.28 without problems.  I decided to give 2.6.29-rc2 a
> try.  It crashes very early during boot, see screenshot, config and lspci
> under http://apt.niif.hu/2.6.29-rc2/.  CPU is AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+,
> kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro.  I fixed the pcf50663 compile
> error by hand, and have a small patch on /drivers/acpi/battery.c, but
> that module isn't loaded on this system.  I can hook up a serial
> console for further info if needed.

What a ghastly backtrace.

At a guess I'd say that drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c is calling
the reed-solomon code earlier than it's expecting.  But that might be
totally wrong.

Please set CONFIG_STAGING=n and retest.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19 12:53 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-26  6:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-27  0:29   ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-27 17:13     ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-28 11:33     ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-31  3:40     ` Greg KH
2009-01-31  4:21       ` [PATCH] ram_console: Disable ECC when early init is enabled and validate buffer size Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-27 16:10   ` 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-27 16:53     ` Andrew Morton

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