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Message-ID: <87eiyok9vc.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:10:47 +0100
From: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arve@...roid.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:53:31 +0100 Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.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.
Should I also test Arve's patch?
Regards,
Feri.
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