Larry Stefani wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > 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. Please learn about git bisect (git-bisect start; git-bisect good; git-bisect bad) and use it to isolate the offending commit. Thiemo
