On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:00:15AM -0700, Larry Stefani wrote: > I've been trying to upgrade from 2.6.16.18 to > 2.6.16.60, but am seeing a hard lockup right before > "INIT: version 2.78 booting" on my SB1250-based board. > > I found a related discussion on the Debian mailing > list: > > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/b7159ee25106c7f9 > > However, after applying Thiemo's patch to mark pages > tainted by PIO IDE as dirty, the lockup still occurs. It's a bug which should be fixed but nevertheless I can highly recommend something like a SiliconImage SATA controller - the onboard PIO PATA controller is so slow. > I narrowed the file changes to > > arch/mips/mm/c-sb1.c > arch/mips/mm/cache.c > arch/mips/mm/init.c > include/asm-mips/cache-flush.h > include/asm-mips/page.h > > between 2.6.16.27 and 2.6.16.29. There was no > 2.6.16.28 tarball posted on linux-mips.org, so I > basically brought .27 to .29 until I found the > offending files. I've pushed the tag again so now there is a tarball. If you need to track something like this you're probably best with git bisect which should bring you right to the offending commit. > Is anyone running a 2.6.16 kernel (after 2.6.16.27) on > a SB1250-based board? Later kernels do run on bcm1480 which is close enough. Ralf
