Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:41:01 +0100 From: Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Efika Message-ID: <20061218064101.GA14935@rink.nu> In-Reply-To: <20061218104841.72ba51ea@hermies.int.fubar.geek.nz>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi Andrew, On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:48:41AM +1300, Andrew Turner wrote: > I have been sent an Efika[1] board from Genesi. > > When booting FreeBSD on it I found it would stop before the > printing copyright notice. The problem seems to be similar to > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2006-June/001692.html (I > have had the same output before) > > After some investigation I found the kernel was stopping when it > reached sys/kern/subr_msgbuf.c line 125 [2]. The msgbuf struct appears > to point to an invalid address. The address of the struct comes from > virtual_addr[3]. This indicates the virtual_addr points to an invalid > area of memory on this device. > > By commenting out sys/kern/subr_prf.c line 924 [4] and using the ofw > console I managed to get past the copyright notice. It now stopped > later attempting to read from memory in the virtual_addr range. > > Has any one got any suggestions how I could fix this? > > Andrew > > [1] http://www.powerdeveloper.org/efika.php > [2] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/kern/subr_msgbuf.c#L125 > [3] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/powerpc/powerpc/mmu_oea.c#L899 > [4] http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/kern/subr_prf.c#L924 Just FYI, it appears that Suleiman Souhlal (ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org) is already working on a port, judging from http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/projects.php?project=239 Have you tried talking to him ? Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "It's you isn't it? THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL!" "In the flesh, on the phone and in your account..." - BOFH #3 [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 k *H \0 X1 0 + 0 *H 00"۳`~0 *H 0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA0 061108092653Z 071108092653Z010USpringer10U*Rink Peter Wycher1#0!URink Peter Wycher Springer10 *H mail@rink.nu1 0 *H rink@freebsd.org1 0 *H rink@il.fontys.nl1 0 *H rink@stack.nl0"0 *H 0 Ƽ c<5~UM ڈmtb0egJ9 ۤ `PL |HJ詷<pX@; O1o#{HO&'<}1@$QGbV-4 aqr^:;ySâ#մZT+fL|#n:ӢK{ t`l ?h":BY-xZ qD T*I;2i@bQ/ɺ:}7JHmȖmDo ]0[0KU D0B mail@rink.nurink@freebsd.orgrink@il.fontys.nl rink@stack.nl0 U 0 0 *H ! cx@6jF#49A$ lfC^7EWs֠9 |{ߚ:JYxM3 $J7I-\a ϖ7v]>Ne3Y 6EUr0?0 0 *H 01 0 UZA10U Western Cape10U Cape Town10U Thawte Consulting1(0&U Certification Services Division1$0"UThawte Personal Freemail CA1+0) *H personal-freemail@thawte.com0 030717000000Z 130716235959Z0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA00 *H 0 Ħ<UsUNʙZ hup [v :aQP 0cZ,p+Z?qV˯< 6$*+w=+>@dקe*TH<a@ dr` 00U 0 0CU <0:08642http://crl.thawte.com/ThawtePersonalFreemailCA.crl0 U 0)U "0 0 10UPrivateLabel2-1380 *H HP . fgCL!6 -6/ P p<ab:~ t%Pb'qW%ݩ9 Oe_N4[5MwV!x!5$ F]_eO1Q0M0v0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA"۳`~0 + 0 *H 1 *H 0 *H 1 061218064101Z0# *H 1_6<l!uVbm0R *H 1E0C0 *H 0*H 0 *H @0+0 *H (0 *H |% -B $UYAᆲ/n$ ]( 'a!z d,IWLSâF#m$pQں/;h f0kuT؋Ϟ!\WwMp8ϡK7A ޝE.~ #Ȳ˶dm}=tSQyQlK@ Yλ hZ88ٰ7FI٠Ds_jyR3!F5Kѫfdh\ghome | help
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