[Serdev] kernel panic on ppc

[Samuel Osorio Calvo]

Thanks, responses inline....

Samuel.


Unclassified.
>>> Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul <andrei at iptel.org> 06/03/05 02:10AM >>>
>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?

In fact I first tried with the old code and then I upgrade the file, and with both SER gave the same error.

>You could also try to compile it without the assembly locks:
>make proper; make use_fast_lock=no all
I'll give it a try and report it...


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

>Andrei