Re: Status on mips and mipsel
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:14:10PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 04:54:05PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > - SGI Indy (IP22): the installer doesn't start. I get:
> > tip22: IP22 Linux tftpboot loader 0.3.8.8
> > Loading program segment 1 at 0x0, size = 0xZeroing memory at 0x88004000, size = 0x0
> > Starting kernel; entry point = 0x8840a000
> > and nothing else, which is odd because 2.6.22-6 itself works fine on
> > my Indy. Thiemo or Flo, can you investigate? The size = 0x0
> > definitely looks wrong...
>
> This is a misacalculation bug in arcboot and thus most likely also in tip22.
> As the kernel itself also cleans its BSS IIRC this shouldnt be a
> problem as long as size is 0 :) The address was completely bogus for me
> too so clearing memory somewhere in dark might also result in crashes.
>
> Guido aka agx knew about this bug ...
>
> From my testing in the last days this bug did not cause any problems for
> me ...
Arcboot 0.3.8.9 in experimental has this fixed - I didn't upload to
unstable since my O2 has hardware problems an so I couldn't check that
it doesn't break IP32 (although it shouldn't).
Cheers,
-- Guido
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