Chris Wright wrote:
>> With these in place, things are getting fairly far, but not to
>> usermode. It often gets as far as trying to mount root, but it fails; I
>> haven't investigated that yet. But it also frequently crashes before
>> then, depending on when it gets an interrupt. I'm trying to work out
>> what's happening here, but the symptom is eip == 0x00000001 (!).
>>
>
> Haven't seen that one.
>
Yeah, it looks like something is going amiss in interrupt delivery.
Maybe something to do with interrupt stacks...
I never saw anything strange relating to timer events, but perhaps this
is a manifestation of that problem.
> Essentially all the local hacks I have are for debugging. There was
> one bit which was just for apic clock setup.
I think I worked around that by masking off the ACPI bit in CPUID.
> But the symptom w/out that was a hang, not a crash.
Yes, I'm past that one.
> They're also on a remote machine that
> has apparently died. Re-tooling locally ATM.
>
That sucks.
J
