From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23: does it supposed to work on an i486?
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:08:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47505FC6.9030208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475059D6.2080900@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> It looks like 2.6.23.9 is missing checkin
>> 7ed192906a2144ebc8ca2925a85d27b9c5355668 from Linus' tree (attached),
>> which is necessary to work on 386 and 486.
>
> Well, I applied the patch (in 2.6.23 it's
> arch/i386/boot/pmjump.S,
> not
> arch/x86/boot/pmjump.S,
> but that's minor) - still the same behavior, it still reboots
> instantly right when bootloader gave control to the kernel.
> So it must be something else.. ;)
Well, it's a good bet it's croaking somewhere in the setup code
(arch/{i386,x86}/boot). Putting debugging statements there might help.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-30 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 17:32 2.6.23: does it supposed to work on an i486? Michael Tokarev
2007-11-30 18:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-30 18:43 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-11-30 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-11-30 19:20 ` Gerb Stralko
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