linux-kernel - Re: [bug] 2.6.39-rc3 fails to boot on Alpha

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Date:	Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:20:48 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@...il.com>
Cc:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] 2.6.39-rc3 fails to boot on Alpha

Jay Estabrook writes:
 > Try replacing the reference to "no_irq_chip" with "dummy_irq_chip"
 > in arch/alpha/irq_alpha.c: int_rtc_irq().

2.6.39-rc3 booted fine with that change.

Thanks,

/Mikael

 >
 > For me, it was dying in the first RTC interrupt taken.
 > 
 > Jay
 > 
 > On 04/17/2011 11:13 AM, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > 2.6.39-rc3 doesn't boot on my Alpha (XP900).  As soon as aboot has loaded
 > > and started the kernel I get:
 > > 
 > > halted CPU 0
 > > 
 > > halt code = 4
 > > invalid PTBR
 > > PC = fffffc00003130d0
 > > 
 > > (that PC value points to an "lda" instruction in sys_osf_proplist_syscall)
 > > 
 > > There's no other output except this, so I don't think the kernel got very far.
 > > 
 > > Haven't checked 2.6.39-rc[12] or bisected anything yet, but 2.6.38 works fine.
 > > 
 > > /Mikael
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