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Re: "Memory not aligned" kernel problem



On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:15:52PM +0100, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, marco wrote:
> 
> > I just compiled the 2.6.0 kernel. The compile process is just fin, byt the
> > image i get seems not to be bootable. Right after i select the image at
> > the sil prompt at boot i get a "Memory not aligned" error and i am kicked
> > to the openboot prompt again.
> 
> What compiler did you use? I wouldn't trust all GCC versions.
> GCC 3.2.3 is known to work with the 2.4 kernels.
> 
> I consider 2.6.0 a 'most things work' milestone. Sparc support for 2.6
> hasn't been tested or reported on this list very much lately. It might be
> broken. In that case, it will be fixed in a next version of the 2.6 series.

I'm guessig this is sparc32. I know for a fact that 2.6.0 is pretty
solid on sparc64.

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