Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755429AbZCWGFm (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:05:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753439AbZCWGFb (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:05:31 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:52820 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750972AbZCWGFb (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:05:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [Bug #12792] 2.6.29-rc6-git4 boot failure From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Sachin Sant Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List In-Reply-To: <49C7186F.3050403@in.ibm.com> References: <1237758581.25062.677.camel@pasglop> <49C7186F.3050403@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:05:07 +1100 Message-Id: <1237788307.25062.686.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 34 > I narrowed it down to 2.6.28-git2(Boots) while 2.6.28-git4(fails to boot). > I could not boot test 2.6.28-git3 as i ran into kernel compilation issues. > > Here is the error message i got when i tried compiling 2.6.28-git3. > > LD vmlinux.o > ld: dynreloc miscount for kernel/built-in.o, section .opd > ld: can not edit opd Bad value > > I think the above one was some tool chain related issue. > > I don't know how to git bisect using these two releases (2.6.28-git2/2.6.28-git4). > I guess that is not possible since there are no commit tags for these releases. > But i could be wrong. > > Is there anything else that i could try out to find a solution for this ? > The machine in question is a Power Mac G5 running Ubuntu Hardy with a > PPC970, altivec supported CPU(2). > > For the record i can still recreate this issue with 2.6.29-rc8-git6. Strange I have such a powermac here and haven't seen that problem... let me dig a bit. Cheers, Ben. -- 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/