kexec trouble with gcc-4.3

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Mon Jun 22 18:08:42 EDT 2009


On 04/02/2009 11:40 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried building kexec with gcc-4.3 from the cell sdk-3.1
> and the resulting binary didn't work correctly.  It works
> OK with the gcc-4.1 from the same (sdk-3.1).
> 
> Here is the last thing seen, then the system hangs:
> 
> Starting new kernel
> kexec: waiting for cpu 1 (physical 1) to go down
> Invalid tag 26 scanning flattened device tree !
> Invalid tag 26 scanning flattened device tree !
> Invalid tag 26 scanning flattened device tree !
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

I finally got around to investigating this, and now
I can't reproduce it.  I tried with 2.6.29 and the
current mainline kernel.  I can only guess it was
something about the kernel at the time.  

-Geoff




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