2008/11/6 Robert Reif <reif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Frédéric Weisbecker wrote: >> >> 2008/11/6 David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> >>> From: Robert Reif <reif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:03:52 -0500 >>> >>> >>>> >>>> sparc has failed to boot recently and I bisected it down to this patch: >>>> >>> >>> ... >>> >>>> >>>> sparc: correct section of current_pc() >>>> >>> >>> ... >>> >>>> >>>> Reverting this patch gets current git booting again. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for tracking this down. I'll take a look and if I >>> can't figure it out I'll revert. >>> >> >> >> Sorry, I will not have the time to look at it. But this bug is weird... >> -- >> 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 >> >> > > You can't change sections in the middle of a chunk of code. The code above > current_pc: falls through to that label which is now in a different section. > Thats why you get an illegal instruction trap at bootup. > Oh ok, I understand... -- 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
