Uncompressing broken with commit e7db7b4270

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Jan 29 10:16:16 EST 2010


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:04:15PM +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote:
> If so, the decompressor would exit with an error message stating that it can't
> allocate enough memory, so I doubt this is the cause.
> 
> However, I have to admit I have no clue as to why Catalin is experiencing this.
> Maybe you could check if your kernel is compiled with CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP, and
> try setting it if it's unset, just to make sure it does not try to read
> something unaligned?

Alignment faults can't be handled in the decompressor; we have no
reliable way to setup the machine vectors at such an early stage to
trap any exceptions.

> Anyway... Russell, would you have any hint?

Absolutely none.



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