Re: "Memory not aligned" kernel problem

[Jim Crilly <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net>]

Ben Collins wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
I just booted 2.6.0 on an Ultra1 and it oopsed in the zilog interrupt 
handler as soon as the sysv scripts were done when init tries to start 
getty for the serial console. But since I don't currently have a serial 
console hooked up I didn't copy the oops, sorry. It happens consistantly 
on boot though so if you want I should be able to get the oops for you.

Thanks,
   Jim.