From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764086AbXK3TJZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:09:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756974AbXK3TJQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:09:16 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57983 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726AbXK3TJP (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:09:15 -0500 Message-ID: <47505FC6.9030208@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:08:54 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Tokarev CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23: does it supposed to work on an i486? References: <47504923.9030309@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4750519C.2000907@zytor.com> <475059D6.2080900@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <475059D6.2080900@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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