Well, the Xburst-arch seems to be pretty fucked up beyond all repair.

//Markus

On 6 Mar 2009, at 17:36, Nils Faerber wrote:

> Hello!
> I am rather playing than really working on a Ingenic JZ4730 based
> device. The JZ4730 is a MIPS32 SOC included in many types of devices,
> like media players and thelike but also in small power efficient
> subnotebooks (this is the device I am trying to support based on the
> Ingebic Linux kernel patch).
>
> The current kernel patch from Ingenic
>
> http://www.ingenic.cn/eng/productServ/App/JZ4730/pfCustomPage.aspx
> or
> ftp://ftp.ingenic.cn/3sw/01linux/02kernel/linux-2.6.24/linux-2.6.24.3-jz-20090218.patch.gz
>
> for the patch (I used an even older patch to start my board support  
> but
> they basically only added newer CPU types in later patches).
>
> The support for my board is almost in place but I see from time to  
> time
> failing applications with "illegal instruction" faults. Most shell
> applications work pretty fine, especially more complex GUI  
> applications
> seem to fail, like a webbrowser or such.
> I also tested this with different GCC and glibc version which makes me
> pretty sure that I am seeing a kernel problem here rather than a
> userspace problem.
>
> I am pretty clueless how to debug this. Apropos debig as another hint:
> Some application work if I start them in GDB but fail outside.
>
> Any hint how to start debugging this would be greatly appreciated!  
> And a
> fix would be like a dream ;)
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Cheers
>  nils faerber
>
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