From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965765AbXCFCXr (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:23:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965773AbXCFCXq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:23:46 -0500 Received: from jenny.ondioline.org ([66.220.1.122]:4427 "EHLO jenny.ondioline.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965767AbXCFCXp (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:23:45 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1770 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:23:45 EST From: Paul Collins To: David Woodhouse Cc: francesco foresti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops) References: <200703051414.15802.frafore@tiscali.it> <1173143894.3461.240.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:53:22 +1300 In-Reply-To: <1173143894.3461.240.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (David Woodhouse's message of "Tue\, 06 Mar 2007 01\:18\:14 +0000") Message-ID: <87tzwzqgrx.fsf@briny.internal.ondioline.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse writes: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:13 +0100, francesco foresti wrote: >> Hi, >> i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not >> patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): >> i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the >> second one because the other slips offscreen before i can see what's going >> on. However, this is what i have been able to hand-copy: >> >> kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:610! >> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#2] [snipped] > I've been seeing very similar behaviour with 2.6.20 on all pmac32 > hardware. I haven't yet tried hard to reproduce on non-pmac. In case it's of interest, 2.6.20 has been running fine on my PowerBook5,4. -- Paul Collins Wellington, New Zealand Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood