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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:26:45 +0300
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: early exception error
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[david@lang.hm - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:21:10PM -0800]
> I'm trying to upgrade a older dual opteron box to a current 64 bit 
> system, but I'm getting early exception errors from several different 
> kernels
>
> I tried the ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 disks, and then I decided to try hunting 
> it down myself, so I took my 2.6.25 32 bit config copied it to a 64 bit  
> system and did a make oldconfig with 2.6.28 and am getting the same type  
> of error (the address changes from kernel to kernel and config to config  
> on the same kernel)
>
> doing a grep through System.map for the address that appears in the error 
> returns nothing
>
> attached are snapshots of the screen when the error happens and two  
> different configs with the same error (I tried disabling high-res timers, 
> tickless operation, and PAT, but got the same error), the 28 image is the 
> -2 config.
>
> where do I go from here to track this down?
>
> David Lang
...

Hi David,

not sure if it's the same but I've got similar errors for
early_params being not capable to handle null passed args.
What is the cmdline? It seems to be framebuffer related.
But otoh I could be just wrong.

		- Cyrill -
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