Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:53:12 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup |
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:10:47 +0100 Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:53:31 +0100 Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> wrote: > > > >> I'm running 2.6.28 without problems. I decided to give 2.6.29-rc2 a > >> try. It crashes very early during boot, see screenshot, config and lspci > >> under http://apt.niif.hu/2.6.29-rc2/. CPU is AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, > >> kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro. I fixed the pcf50663 compile > >> error by hand, and have a small patch on /drivers/acpi/battery.c, but > >> that module isn't loaded on this system. I can hook up a serial > >> console for further info if needed. > > > > What a ghastly backtrace. > > > > At a guess I'd say that drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c is calling > > the reed-solomon code earlier than it's expecting. But that might be > > totally wrong. > > > > Please set CONFIG_STAGING=n and retest. > > Indeed, with CONFIG_STAGING unset the kernel boots up fine! Before > testing I pulled again, set CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU=y and > CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y, but the resulting kernel still crashed (serial > log attached). Then I unset CONFIG_STAGING and that worked.
Thanks.
> Should I also test Arve's patch?
I'm sure he'd be pleased ;)
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