Re: Alpha ref machine is grumpy...

From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel_at_xcllnt.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:39:37 -0800
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:59:30PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> I get a broken kernel.  I believe that means it's the last of the device
> megapatches that causes the problem (I'm not blaming the device megapatches,
> as phk says the issue might be with the Alpha code doing things it wasn't
> supposed to do...).  I'll let you guys figure out which of those it is. :-)
> Given absolutely nothing comes out the serial console other than the
> complaint about the kernel stack my vote goes for the console code being
> where it dies but ...

I think the problem is that on alpha we never call cninit().

As a quick test, can you remove device sio from the kernel config and
instead add the following:
	options	NO_SIO
	device	uart

This is expected to work. Can you verify that for me?

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel_at_xcllnt.net
Received on Mon Feb 23 2004 - 21:39:51 UTC

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