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Linux version 2.2.1 (willy@bmw) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)) #18
Wed Jun 30 05:46:53 METDST 1999at which point it hangs and I have to reset. Excellent work.
Well, not a bad start, but what worries me is that this boot sequence should really go on a bit more. I'm not quite sure where the problem is, it might be with some PDC calls we do within setup_arch().
I'll upload a binary of the kernel that I know works on my A class. I'd appreciate it if people could email tests of this on different machines.
- Alex
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Quoted 4 lines · Matthew Wilcox
Linux version 2.2.1 (willy@bmw) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)) #18
Wed Jun 30 05:46:53 METDST 1999
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at which point it hangs and I have to reset. Excellent work.
Well, not a bad start, but what worries me is that this boot sequence should really go on a bit more. I'm not quite sure where the problem is, it might be with some PDC calls we do within
setup_arch().
It fails before it gets that far (what a joy it is to have a working printk..):
in arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c
__initfunc(void setup_arch(char **cmdline_p,
unsigned long * memory_start_p, unsigned long * memory_end_p))
{
char cpuinfo_text[2000];printk("setup_arch(%p, %p, %p)\n", cmdline_p, memory_start_p, memory_end_p); printk("-3\n");printk("%p\n", *cmdline_p);printk("%s\n", *cmdline_p);
strcpy(*cmdline_p,saved_command_line); // copy the command-lineprintk("-2\n");
I get the following printout:
setup_arch(000a0860, 000767e0, 000767e4)
-3f000013c
zC
and there it hangs.
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I'll upload a binary of the kernel that I know works on my A class. I'd appreciate it if people could email tests of this on different machines.
When you put it up, I'll happily test it; maybe my kernel is larger than yours and is causing something to be overwritten?
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Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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printk("-3\n");printk("%p\n", *cmdline_p);printk("%s\n", *cmdline_p);
strcpy(*cmdline_p,saved_command_line); // copy the command-lineprintk("-2\n");
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I get the following printout:
setup_arch(000a0860, 000767e0, 000767e4)
-3f000013c
zC
f000013c is in I/O space. Is the command line really meant to point into I/O space..
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printk("-3\n");printk("%p\n", *cmdline_p);printk("%s\n", *cmdline_p);
strcpy(*cmdline_p,saved_command_line); // copy the command-lineprintk("-2\n");I get the following printout:
setup_arch(000a0860, 000767e0, 000767e4)
-3f000013c
zC
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f000013cis in I/O space. Is the command line really meant to point into I/O space..It was completely wrong to use
strcpy()!
Sorry, my fault !!!!!
It is now corrected in CVS.
So it is. Thank you very much.
Has the price of beef gone up?
[if you've not booted the kernel, there's no way you'll understand this :-)]
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Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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Has the price of beef gone up?
[if you've not booted the kernel, there's no way you'll understand this :-)]
you could, of course, read the source code as well ...