Hi Benjamin,

On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 19:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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By unstable I mean that the computer completely freeze during boot
time,
around the time rc.sysinit is launched. Unfortunately I'm rather new
to
linux kernel so I don't know how to provide more information on the
crash (maybe should I configure the kernel with xmon ?).
In a divide&conquer approach I found that the part of rc.sysinit
which
'uploads' the console font to the font layer was triggering the
crash.

Can you try 2 things and let me know if one of them helps ?

 - Compile without CPUFREQ support
 - Use video=radeon:noaccel on the command line to disable
acceleration
   on console

This produced the same hard freeze (I tried every combination of the
two things).

Also, it would be helpful if you could go backward the kernel
versions to point when the problem started. You could try
2.4.20-ben1. If it doesn't have the problem, then -ben5, etc...
(do a dichotomy).

Unfortunately there seems to be only from ben3 to ben10 available on
your site.

And fortunately ben3 is *not* affected !
So the problem lies between 4 and 10. I guess my next kernel compile
will be 6.

I'll compile your other patches tomorrow and let you know at which
point it fails.

Many thanks,
Regards,

Brice


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