On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:45 +0200, Adrian Reber wrote: > I have a custom config to build a kernel which runs on JS21/QS21/QS22. > Starting with 2.6.26-rc1 that fails on JS21 (with SLOF). Bisecting lead > me to the following commit: > > commit 366234f657879aeb7a1e2ca582f2f24f3fae9269 > Author: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed Apr 16 05:52:28 2008 +1000 > > [POWERPC] Update linker script to properly set physical addresses > > I then tried it with cell_defconfig and it fails with almost the same > error on QS22. I have not restared the bisecting on QS22 because the > error is so similar: > > zImage starting: loaded at 0x00400000 (sp: 0x0e16aea0) > Allocating 0x6790c8 bytes for kernel ... > OF version = 'IBM,SLOF,HEAD' > gunzipping (0x01400000 <- 0x00407000:0x0062ce4a)...done 0x60405a bytes > > Linux/PowerPC load: > Finalizing device tree... using OF tree (promptr=0e1004c4) > > > ( 700 ) Program Exception [ e1004c4 ]
The program check exception happens at 0xe1004c4 ? That looks like the OF entry point (promptr)... could it be possible that it got corrupted somewhat ? The only thing I see above there would be the stack but I fail to see how it would use that much... > R0 .. R7 R8 .. R15 R16 .. R23 R24 .. R31 > 00000000014073b0 000000000e974200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > 000000000e16aea0 0000000000638c04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > 00000000019e2b98 000000000e974200 0000000000000000 0000000001400000 > 0000000000000000 b000000000003000 0000000000000000 0000000000638804 > 0000000000000000 2000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000e96f3c0 > 000000000e1004c4 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000e1004c4 > 000000000e96f3c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > 0000000000638804 0000000000000000 000000000eac5d70 0000000000000000 > > CR / XER LR / CTR SRR0 / SRR1 DAR / DSISR > 80000022 00000000014073e8 000000000189e99c 0000000000000000 > 0000000020000000 0000000001400000 9000000000083000 00000000 > > I have tried it with gcc-3.4.2, gcc-4.1.1 and gcc-4.2.4. > > Somehow I expect that I am doing something wrong, because nobody else > has reported something like this yet. > > It looks like 2.6.25 was the last version which worked on SLOF based > systems. > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev