Bug#509202: Broken kernel

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

tags 509202 moreinfo
thanks

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 03:44:31PM +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've installed the machine with debootstrap and the help of the Gentoo
> 2008.0 live CD.
> 
> When trying to boot the debian sparc kernels
> 
>     linux-image-2.6.26-1-sparc64(-smp)
> 
> from harddisk, the machine freezes very early, probably around
> 
> [    0.000000] [000000036f100000-fffff8b00a800000] page_structs=131072
> node=0 entry=1469/0
> 
> (cannot be too sure about that, the attached RSC serial console is
> somewhat limited)
> 
> 
> I compiled my own sparc64 kernel (2.6.28, initial config taken from the
> Gentoo 2.6.24 live CD). This new kernel boots without any problems, the
> machine is up and running.
> 
> I've attached you my working kernel config, so you can check what might
> have caused the problems reported in this bug. Perhaps it's worth to
> reassign this bug to the kernel package.

Is the machine working with an Debian kernel since then?

Cheers,
        Moritz