[Serdev] kernel panic on ppc

[Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul]

On Jun 01, 2005 at 11:09, Samuel Osorio Calvo <samuel.osorio at nl.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Recently I had the opportunity to experiment porting SER to a power PC architecture (motorola 8260) and I successfully compiled it with the fastlocking changes for power PC commited by Andrei recently.
> 
> The issue is that I can make SER work in non fork mode but when I set to to forking mode, an access violation occurs, and a kernel panic pops up:
> 
> INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation! sleeping for 30 seconds

Did it work with the older code?

You could also try to compile it without the assembly locks:
make proper; make use_fast_lock=no all

The code seems to be ok on normal powerpcs. I've tried it on an emulator
(pearpc) running darwin.


Andrei