* Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-11-26 14:45]: > > With a 32 bit kernel (current git) on BigSur, I get an oops while > > trying to load the ramdisk: > I've just modified the memory initialization code significantly to add > support for ZONE_DMA32 for the Sibyte boxes, so could you retest? Same problem with your patch (current Linus git plus your patch): Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000, epc == 8029a238, ra == 8029d674 Oops[#1]: Cpu 0 $ 0 : 00000000 10001f00 00000000 00000000 $ 4 : 8e89f000 00000000 8f421df8 00000000 $ 8 : 80440000 8e889a6c 00000000 0000000e $12 : 8ec6903c ffffffff 00000000 00000088 $16 : 8eda0240 80450000 00500001 8e89f000 $20 : 00000002 8f00d114 00000000 00000000 $24 : 00000003 000000cd $28 : 8f420000 8f421da8 00000000 8029d674 Hi : 00000002 Lo : 82828285 epc : 8029a238 init_dev+0x8c/0x56c Not tainted ra : 8029d674 tty_open+0x148/0x330 Status: 10001f03 KERNEL EXL IE Cause : 00808008 BadVA : 00000000 PrId : 01041100 (SiByte SB1A) Modules linked in: Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=8f420000, task=8f41f928) Stack : 801789f0 00000003 8044e874 8e89f000 8f421dfc 00000000 8eda0240 80450000 00500001 00000001 00000002 8f00d114 00000000 00000000 00000000 8029d674 8ec69d28 00000000 8f421df8 00000000 8ec69d28 00000000 00000000 80496fe0 8ec69d28 8eda0240 8f4032a0 80172fa8 00000000 8f413000 ffffff9c 8017bb04 00000000 8043bba0 8eda0240 8ec69d28 00000000 80172e88 8016df1c 80440000 ... Call Trace: [<8029a238>] init_dev+0x8c/0x56c [<8029d674>] tty_open+0x148/0x330 [<80172fa8>] chrdev_open+0x120/0x178 [<8016df1c>] __dentry_open+0x104/0x210 [<8016e0d4>] nameidata_to_filp+0x30/0x54 [<8016e138>] do_filp_open+0x40/0x54 [<8016e1b0>] do_sys_open+0x64/0x114 [<80100448>] init_post+0x30/0xe8 [<80456874>] kernel_init+0x2e4/0x314 Code: 8c8200a0 00051880 00431021 <8c510000> 162000e2 00000000 8e64003c 10800009 24020002 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/