[parisc-linux] kdb_v21 branch updated to -pa26, and kallsyms cross-compile

[joel.soete@freebel.net]

Hi Randolph,

I remember that I do it when you suggest it and iirc it help to goes further in
the boot. But I could not confirm at 100% because I had some hpmc problem with
my b2000 test server. Sorry, i will try to solved this problem first then come
back to you.

Joel

Quoting Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>:

> > I think there are two maybe three places where kdb initializes 
> > certain structures during startup. I'm going to have to check 
> > those paths to see how far it gets before dying.
> > 
> > Any comments from the crowd would be helpfull :)
> > 
> > /me goes off to add some printk's and extra check
> 
> i've been offline for a bit so i might have missed something... but
> aiui
> the symptom you've been seeing is that it hangs at the "If this is the
> last message you see" message? has anyone tried to compile a kernel
> with
> early bootup messages (there's a #define in pdc_cons.c to enable this)
> and see if they get farther?
> 
> there are some debugging stuff that you can turn on in
> arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c ... that piece of code has caused some hangs
> 
> in the past, you might want to enable those printks as well.
> 
> randolph
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