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From: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] 2.6.39-rc3 fails to boot on Alpha
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:52:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAB36D0.8080503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19883.912.266127.538215@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>

Try replacing the reference to "no_irq_chip" with "dummy_irq_chip"
in arch/alpha/irq_alpha.c: int_rtc_irq().

For me, it was dying in the first RTC interrupt taken.

Jay

On 04/17/2011 11:13 AM, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 2.6.39-rc3 doesn't boot on my Alpha (XP900).  As soon as aboot has loaded
> and started the kernel I get:
> 
> halted CPU 0
> 
> halt code = 4
> invalid PTBR
> PC = fffffc00003130d0
> 
> (that PC value points to an "lda" instruction in sys_osf_proplist_syscall)
> 
> There's no other output except this, so I don't think the kernel got very far.
> 
> Haven't checked 2.6.39-rc[12] or bisected anything yet, but 2.6.38 works fine.
> 
> /Mikael
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-17 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-17 15:13 [bug] 2.6.39-rc3 fails to boot on Alpha Mikael Pettersson
2011-04-17 18:52 ` Jay Estabrook [this message]
2011-04-17 19:20   ` Mikael Pettersson
2011-04-18  4:07 ` Bob Tracy

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