balaji.ramalingam@philips.com wrote: > > Hello, > > I took the linux kernel 2.4.3 from ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/linux/mips/kernel/2.4/src/. > This kernel was ported for MIPS32 ISA and its supposed to work with all the > mips 4kc core. I took the kernel and ported for our Philips processor PR3950, > which is based on a mips 4kc core. > > I have some issues in the reserve_bootmem() & the paging_init() in the > arch/mips/kernel/setup.c. Itseems that they fail in the alloc_bootmem (). > I commented these functions and got till console_init() to get the print messages > on my screen. I got the message as Kernel Bug in bootmem.c > Does PR3950 have ll/sc instructions? If not, make sure the config file reflects that properly. Otherwise alloc_bootmem() will hang for ever. Commenting them out certainly is not the solution. :-) Jun
