Re: How to debug 2.6 PReP boot hang?

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:39:19PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:

> > My suggestion is to go back in releases until one does work, see where
> > the changes are that break it, and work from there.  It should be
> > possible to fix what broke. :)
> 
> OK, did some compiling and testing and fout that my suspicion was right:
> BK changeset 1.1371.384.5 boots ok but 1.1371.384.6 makes it hang.
> 
> It's the one that reorganizes boot code:
> PPC32: Kill off arch/ppc/boot/prep and rearrange some files.

Sadly, that is what I expected.  Try narrowing down the differences
between prep/head.S and simple/head.S (or rather head.s via make
arch/ppc/boot/prep/head.s and simple/head.s to strip out comments, etc).

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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