Re: CVS breakage

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 10:04:15AM -0700, Srinivasa Prasad Thirumalachar wrote:

> > 
> > I noticed that I don't get any output from the serial console on the
> > current CVS kernel.  On the debug port it only prints:
> > 
> > 1A 000: *** XTLB Refill Exception on node 0
> > 1A 000: *** EPC: 0xffffffff80036cc8 (0xffffffff80036cc8)
> > 1A 000: *** Press ENTER to continue.
> 
> This means that processor in slot N1, cpu A, took the exception
> and it had not gotten past iodiscovery yet to print it on the
> serial console. swapping n1 with other slots may help??
> 
> Is there a good baseio in io1-6

There is.  This is the typical way for an Origin kernel to die when it
gets struck by a fatal bug in the very early startup.

  Ralf