On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Karel van Houten wrote: > Oh, and the resulting (ELF) kernel doesn't boot at all: > >>boot 3/rz0 1/new > delo V0.7 Copyright 2000 Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> > Loading /etc/delo.conf .. ok > Loading /boot/vmlinux.new ....... ok > > KN05 V2.1k (PC: 0xa002cab8, SP: 0x8043fef0) > >> Well, this might be related to R4k you are using. I have been able to run kernels up to 2.4.0-test12 fine on my /240. I tried the final 2.4.0 (or was it 2.4.1? -- I don't rememeber) on my machine and it booted but it was very unstable -- I got a shell prompt but any moderate fs activity killed it immediately. As it was the time I was building binutils 2.10.91 package I checked if the version of binutils matters. It didn't. The 2.4.0-test12 version was stable and the other one was not regardless of the binutils version used. So I guess there may be something wrong with the R4k code generation in gcc 2.95.2(3) (or possibly binutils, but the latter is quite unlikely). I can't run-time test R4k code but I may see if I can review the generated binary of startup code up to the first line output for any inconsistencies. Don't hold your breath, though... -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
