Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:42:17 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 5/8] param: arch_get_boot_command_line() (take II) |
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:28:32AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2008 05:07:25 Luck, Tony wrote: > > > I pulled your git tree. All my test configs build cleanly > > > for ia64 ... but sadly the first kernel I tested (generic_defconfig) > > > doesn't boot (no console output at all). > > > > > > I'll see if I can figure out what is going on. > > > > Aha. > > OK, both appended to git tree. > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-boot-params.git > > If noone else complains, I'll fold the fix and ask Stephen to take the tree > for linux-next.
One commit in there looks rather dirty:
| commit c3f789e6270db86717ef578fa2383ca59b134108 | Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | Date: Thu Dec 4 11:06:18 2008 +1030 | | Aha. You are now calling machvec_init_from_cmdline() too early (before | efi_init() and io_port_init()) ... so we croak accessing things | that have not been set up. Naive fix is to just move them from | setup_arch() to arch_get_boot_command_line(). I can't see how to | handle this more cleanly given that you do the rest of the | command line parsing before calling setup_arch(). | | With the addition of this patch ia64 bits are | | Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
I'm wondering whether the ia64 bits are now green, yellow or maybe they're taking some terminal exercise by jumping off the cliff like lemmings.
-- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of:
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