From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:01:33 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Fortescue Subject: Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005) In-Reply-To: <20070729205625.GK16817@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20070728234856.0fb78952.krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> <20070729003855.1c5422ed.krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> <20070729174535.9eb6d0aa.krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> <20070729205625.GK16817@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Krzysztof Helt , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:26:29PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: >> ... >> I am going to try to cherry pick a set of commits to see if I can't get a >> better idear of where the memory corruption on sun4c is coming from. Build >> problems sue to the DMA changes make git bisecting un-usable untill I have >> found out which patches fix the DMA build issues. > > You have any known-good kernel? > > Boot back into this kernel for bisecting and compiling the kernels for > bisecting there. > As I said, bisecting does not work if you can't build the kernel because of un-defined symbols spanning most of the revisions you are interested in. I have isolated the revisions that do not build so I should be able to cerry pick a commit/commits that fixes the build issues. Once done, I will be able to investigate the original issue. If it were practical to do a build test on all supported platforms before submitting patches then this would not be so much of an issue but ... > cu > Adrian > > -- > > "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out > of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. > "Only a promise," Lao Er said. > Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org