From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758853AbYDDJBp (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 05:01:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755905AbYDDJBh (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 05:01:37 -0400 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:22962 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755561AbYDDJBg (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2008 05:01:36 -0400 Message-ID: <47F5EE6A.6080705@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:01:30 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080110) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux-kernel Subject: 2.6.24 still doesn't boot on i486.. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just a follow-up on my earlier bugreport, when 2.6.23 first come out.... 2.6.24 seems to not boot on i486-class hardware. The machine reboots right after "Booting linux" message. 2.6.22 was the last worked kernel. The relevant config entries are: CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y CONFIG_NO_HZ=y CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD=y CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_M486=y CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y <-- is it right? CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7 CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y CONFIG_X86_F00F_BUG=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY=4 CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y CONFIG_X86_MCE_P4THERMAL=y CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G=y Compiled with gcc (GCC) 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2). This email is also a JFYI-style email. Yesterday I tried to debug this issue but discovered that the power unit of that machine failed. Well, it still works and the machine boots, but at the same time it smells like frosted/fried plastic ;) So I don't have i486 hardware anymore to test things on... And now I wonder if I'm the only person in this world with i486 machine... ;) Thanks! /mjt