[parisc-linux] C360 shellprompt

Matthew Wilcox willy@thepuffingroup.com
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 16:41:52 -0500


On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:53:21PM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> Just so you all know, we get to a shell prompt on the C360 after the
> changes which I'm about to commit (blame slow dialup lines).  I would
> like to know whether we get to a prompt on other PA2.0 machines as well.

On the C3000, there is a problem with calling the pdc, as we discussed
offline.  With the calls to the PDC commented out, we get past the
`POSIX Conformance Testing by UNIFIX' line:

after __k_t (1)
554
556
558
after __k_t (0)
766
618
628
630
641
645
651
bad magic 6a930530 (should be c0030a80), wq bug, forcing oops.


On the L-class (ok, just for a giggle, and the room was too cold :-) :

Transferring control to kernel. (At entry point 0x00010000)
!.
************* SYSTEM ALERT **************
SYSTEM NAME: uninitialized
DATE: 01/12/2000 TIME: 21:22:19
ALERT LEVEL: 7 = reserved

REASON FOR ALERT
SOURCE: 0 = unknown, no source stated
SOURCE DETAIL: 0 = unknown, no source stated   SOURCE ID: FF
PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 = no problem detail

LEDs:  RUN      ATTENTION     FAULT     REMOTE     POWER
       FLASH    FLASH         FLASH     OFF        ON

0x0000307000FF6292 00000000 00000000 - type  0 = Data Field Unused
0x5800387000FF6292 00006400 0C151613 - type 11 = Timestamp 01/12/2000 21:22:19
A: ack read of this entry - X: Disable all future alert messages
Anything else skip redisplay the log entry
->Choice:

which is not something I've seen before.  Is this at all familiar to
someone else?  This is presumably being generated by the PAT PDC, so
maybe someone with N-class experience could tell me a bit about it?