Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:03:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:03:26 -0500 Received: from punt-2.aladdin.de ([212.14.90.2]:39343 "HELO punt.aladdin.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:03:21 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: cpg@aladdin.de Subject: Alphastation stopped booting with 2.4.10+ From: Christian Groessler Date: 02 Nov 2001 00:02:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87wv1a5c39.fsf@gibbon.cnet.aladdin.de> Lines: 45 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, 2.4.9 worked fine, but starting with 2.4.10 my Alphastation 200 stopped booting. It simply halts immediately after being called by aboot: ------------ aboot> 6 aboot: loading compressed boot/srm-vmlinux-2.4.10.gz... aboot: zero-filling 147840 bytes at 0xfffffc0000a82520 aboot: starting kernel boot/srm-vmlinux-2.4.10.gz with arguments root=/dev/sda5 video=tga:font:SUN12x22,mode:1024x768-76 console=ttyS0 halted CPU 0 halt code = 5 HALT instruction executed PC = fffffc00009b0cc0 >>> ------------ I think the problem is the newly introduced opDEC_check, if I do the following change ------------ --- arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c Thu Nov 1 02:48:15 2001 +++ arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c.good Thu Nov 1 23:07:32 2001 @@ -998,6 +998,6 @@ trap_init(void) * a bug in the handling of the opDEC fault. Fix it up if so. */ if (implver() == IMPLVER_EV4) { - opDEC_check(); + /*opDEC_check();*/ } } ------------ the computer boots OK. I'm using SRM V7.0-9 and aboot 0.8 on an AlphaStation 200 4/100 regards, chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/