On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 07:37:29AM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 06/02/2019 07:28, Corentin Labbe wrote:
>
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> Sorry even with the patch I still hit the issue.
> >>>
> >>> I have added some debug and at least qemu set initrd_size correctly now.
> >>>
> >>> I have tried to compile openbios-sparc32 for debugging but fail with
> >>> arch/sparc32/context.c:116:5: error: PIC register clobbered by 'l7' in 'asm'
> >>> asm __volatile__ ("\n\tcall __switch_context"
> >>> ^~~
> >>> make[1]: *** [rules.mak:219: target/arch/sparc32/context.o] Error 1
> >>> (gcc 7.2 and gc 6.4 with binutils 2.30)
> >>
> >> Hmmm. One other thing I've noticed is that newer kernels tend need a minimum of 256M
> >> RAM to start up - does it work if you add -m 256 to your command line?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I have already set 256M of RAM. (and tried 512)
>
> I wonder then if this is being triggered by a recent kernel change? I tend to test
> using the latest Debian ports ISOs which are currently running 4.9 and that booted
> fine when I was testing the patches above.
>
> Can you try with a few older kernels to see if this is the case?
>
>
Hello
Good catch, it boot fine with 4.9.99.
A start a long git bisect...
Regards
