Kernel 2.4.2-ac6 hangs while booting an AMD Elan SC520 development board.
Long-story-short
================
If I define "STANDARD_MEMORY_BIOS_CALL" in setup.S and misc.c, it boots
fine. Here are the results:
memory map that hangs (added debugging to setup.S to determine E820 map):
hand-copied physical RAM map:
bios-e820: 000000000009f400 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
bios-e820: 0000000000000c00 @ 000000000009f400 (reserved)
bios-e820: 0000000003f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
bios-e820: 0000000003f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
bios-e820: 0000000000100000 @ 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
memory map that works (#define STANDARD_MEMORY_BIOS_CALL in setup.S & misc.c):
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-88: 000000000009f000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
BIOS-88: 0000000003f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
Is this the result of a BIOS problem?
Long-story-long
===============
(when STANDARD_MEMORY_BIOS_CALL is not defined)
Booting from a floppy, I see the following message:
"Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."
That's the last print statement I see.
Adding debug, it appears to go through the following:
init/main.c:
start_kernel {
...
setup_arch(&command_line);
...
}
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:
setup_arch {
...
for (i = 0; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
...
free_bootmem(PFN_PHYS(curr_pfn), PFN_PHYS(size)); ...
...
}
...
}
mm/bootmem.c:
free_bootmem{
return(free_bootmem_core(contig_page_data.bdata, addr, size));
}
mm/bootmem.c:
free_bootmem_core {
...
for (i = sidx; i < eidx; i++) {
...
if (!test_and_clear_bit(i, bdata->node_bootmem_map)) {
BUG();
}
}
}
include/asm-i386/page.h:
BUG {
printk("kernel BUG at %s:%d!\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);
...
}
(at this point, it appears to be in an infinite printk loop <?>)
I didn't spend much time looking into the printk loop, but it seems to
end up there, even if CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE is not defined, as if the
".byte 0x0f,0x0b" is causing the loop to begin.
Any ideas/suggestions/comments?
Brian
bmoyle@mvista.com
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