> I'll start digging on why this doesn't boot ... but you might as well > send the fixes so far upstream to Linus so that the SMP fix is available Well a pure 2.6.24 version compiled with CONFIG_SMP=n booted just fine, so the breakage is recent ... and more than likely related to this change. I've only had a casual dig at the failing case ... kernel dies in memset() as called from kmem_cache_alloc() with the address being written as 0x4000000000117b48 (which is off in the virtual address space range used by users ... not a kernel address). I'll dig some more tomorrow. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html