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Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1



On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, David Welton wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 08:35:26AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > > it gets stuck after printing "instantiating rtas... done" but before it
> > > manages to initialize the framebuffer.
> 
> Yes, it exits prom_init, and then dies somewhere.  Where, precisely, i
> have no idea.

Can you try the serial console (`console=ttyS0')? If you're lucky, you will get
some output there before it crashes.

Alternatively, I have a patch to hardbang the serial port in printk(), which I
always use to add debugging printk() when someone breaks the kernel in that
early stage.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


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