On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Andy Green wrote: > On 06/04/2011 02:17 PM, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > Hi - > > > When booted on a Beagleboard-xM, the resulting kernel appears to hang > > after "Starting kernel...". I haven't investigated any further. > > Panda chokes the same way with previously OK omap4_defconfig. > [...] > > > The .config I'm using is that described on the wiki at > > https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/HowTo/KernelDeploy#From_Linaro_sources > > with omap2plus_defconfig, after adding EXT4, the userland blows SIGILL -- and > just SIGILL, not segfaults -- in an unpredictable but apparently deterministic > way. For example ls at bash prompt is OK but ls -l is SIGILL. > > The rootfs is linaro Ubuntu autobuilt stuff from a few weeks ago that has been > reliable until this kernel. > > I googled around and saw some other guy met this in April with no obvious > result. It's possibly toolchain related since I am using gcc 4.5.1 Fedora ARM > cross toolchain, but that's a bit subtle since omap4_defconfig is OK and > expecting that to work is legit. Linus HEAD works fine with it too. > > http://xbmc-installer.pastebin.ca/2045257 > http://pandaboard.org/pbirclogs/index.php?date=2011-04-11#T23:14:08 > > I attempted to adapt a few things in omap2plus_defconfig like CONFIG_EMBEDDED > to omap4_defconfig style but it didn't help; in any event omap4_defconfig is > broken differently. > > I have some dss patches on top but I rewound them for now and just pushed > three small patches on top to my master (moving the old master to > "tilt-linux-linaro-2.6.38").
Can you test with plain v2.6.39 to see if those problems are present, and if no then it would be interesting to see the result of a git bisect run. Nicolas _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
