[LEDE-DEV] ARC770 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004

[Yousong Zhou]

On 19 July 2017 at 04:51, Alexandru Gagniuc <alex.g at adaptrum.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to get a new ASIC with an ARC770 core running with openwrt,
> but I keep hitting the attempted to kill init problem, and have run out of
> debugging ideas. I've tried building busybox statically linked.
>
> I'm building a kernel elf with initramfs, and loading that via JTAG. I can
> get console, and things seem to work up until the kernel passes control to
> userspace. Devicetree and kernel log attached below.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had this problem in the context of LEDE
> (specifically on arc770), and what was done to resolve it.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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> [   12.890000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> exitcode=0x00000004

Code 0x4 here very likely refers to SIGILL.  This has happened quite a
few times before for other architectures.

                yousong