I downloaded a new toolchain from ftp.mips-linux.org and the previous problem is not repeating itself (t0 is now loaded properly with the _edata value). Now I have another problem. I am getting the following exception: ---- Start of pasted message --------- Starting program at 0xffffffff802ec000 Broadcom SiByte BCM1250 B2 @ 800 MHz (SB1 rev 2) Board type: SiByte BCM91250E (Sentosa) @@@@ This is a BCM1250 B1/B2, but the kernel is conservatively configured for an 'A' stepping. @@@@ This kernel optimized for board runs with CFE CPU revision is: 01040102 FPU revision is: 000f0102 Primary instruction cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. Linux version 2.4.30 (michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.4.3) #29 SMP Wed May 18 10:37:00 IDT 2005 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 0000000001effe00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) memory: 000000000dffbe00 @ 0000000002004000 (usable) memory: 000000000ffffe00 @ 0000000080000000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 589823 zone(0): 589823 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs ip=any ramdisk_size=48000 Calibrating delay loop... 532.48 BogoMIPS Memory: 468216k/523236k available (1951k kernel code, 55020k reserved, 148k data, 112k init) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. Checking for the multiply/shift bug... no. Checking for the daddi bug... no. Checking for the daddiu bug... no. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Detected 2 available CPU(s) Starting CPU 1... Primary instruction cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes. Slave cpu booted successfully Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x2) All processors have done init_idle pipe_mnt = 0 Cpu 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at address 0000000000000028, epc == ffffffff8016e3bc, ra == ffffffff8014 Oops in fault.c::do_page_fault, line 231: Cpu 0 $0 : 0000000000000000 ffffffff803b0000 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 $4 : ffffffff802c31ba ffffffff802c45f2 0000000000000072 0000000000000000 $8 : ffffffff803bf630 ffffffff803bf630 ffffffff803bd550 000000000000000a $12 : ffffffffffffffff ffffffff8039b487 0000000000000000 ffffffff802bf0d0 $16 : ffffffff80100098 a80000008fff6080 ffffffffffffffe9 a80000008fff6140 $20 : 0000000000000000 ffffffff803078c0 0000000000000001 ffffffff80324688 $24 : 0000000000000000 0000000000000020 $28 : ffffffff802e8000 ffffffff802ebce0 ffffffff802ebd70 ffffffff8016e3c4 Hi : 0000000000000000 Lo : 0000000000000000 epc : ffffffff8016e3bc Not tainted badvaddr: 0000000000000028 Status : 14001fe3 [ KX SX UX KERNEL EXL IE ] Cause : 80808008 PrId : 01040102 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=ffffffff802e8000) Stack: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 0000000000000000 9000000010060120 9000000010060100 ffffffff803bd550 ffffffff803bf630 ffffffff803bf630 ffffffff80100098 0000000000000000 0000000000010f00 ffffffff80307860 0000000000000000 ffffffff803078c0 0000000000000001 ffffffff80324688 0000000000000000 ffffffff8010a0c8 ffffffffffffffff 000000000000000a ffffffff80107e2c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000020 0000000000000001 000000000000000a ffffffff802e8000 ffffffff802ebe00 0000000000000000 ffffffff8021458c 00000000000013bf c000000000000000 0000000000010f00 0000000000000000 ffffffff802ebef0 0000000000000fc0 ffffffffffffffc0 0000000000000000 0000000014001fe1 ffffffff8039b488 000000000000003e ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff80100098>] [<ffffffff8010a0c8>] [<ffffffff80107e2c>] [<ffffffff8021458c>] [<ffffffff80100098>] [<ffffffff8012583c>] [<ffffffff80105488>] [<ffffffff8012583c>] Code: dc42a5f0 104000fc 00000000 <0c05ffcc> dc440028 104000e7 0040802d 0c05b892 0040202d Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not syncing <0>Rebooting in 5 seconds..Passing control back to CFE... ---- End of pasted message --------- The fault is in do_pipe() function when trying to call: struct inode *inode = new_inode(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb); The pipe_mnt is NULL at this point because init_pipe_fs () was not called yet. Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks, Michael --- "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Michael Belamina wrote: > > > I have built a 64 bit kernel for BCM1250. > > When the kernel is loaded and control is passed > to > > kernel_entry there is an exception: > > > > CFE> boot -elf LinuxServer:vmlinux.64 > [...] > > I'm assuming vmlinux.64 is a 64-bit ELF file. If > so, then, well, > depending on the version of CFE you have, this may > or may not work. The > workaround is to always use 32-bit ELF files. You > should get one after > your Linux build -- if not (which may depend on how > you do builds), then > try `make vmlinux.32' and use the result. > > Maciej > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com