Ralf Baechle: > I've got a success and a failure report for BCM1480 systems, both with > fairly recent kernels and 2.6.17. > > Ralf > Thanks a lot Ralf. The git bisect tool looks very cool; I will probably make use of it in the future. However, I solved the problem at hand. It's the interrupt dispatcher. I forward-ported the old assembly-language interrupt dispatcher and the system now boots. If I have time, I might look at the C code to see what it does differently from the assembly code and try to fix it. Cheers ...