If I may add, the changes made when the flush_icache_page call was retired seems to cause this problem. I reversed some of the changes and the kernel boots fine atleast on 1480. commit id : 4bbd62a93a1ab4b7d8a5b402b0c78ac265b35661 /manoj -----Original Message----- From: linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ralf Baechle Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 6:02 PM To: Mark E Mason Cc: Jonathan Day; linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Kernel debugging contd. On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:54:06PM -0700, Mark E Mason wrote: > FWIW - this is the same place my boards are hanging (right after freeing > kernel memory). I'd tracked it down to the commit that changed the > cache/page handling for the sibyte parts from the sb1 specific to the > generic codes -- but haven't found time to look into it further as yet. Got a commit ID? Ralf