[Cbe-oss-dev] Problems booting PS3 kernel

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

Hi,

Whenever I try to boot a kernel built from the ps3-linux branch (up- 
to-date sources), I get the following messages:

kboot: testing
get memory ranges:1
Invalid memory segment 0x800000 - 0x9fdfff
get memory ranges:1
Invalid memory segment 0x800000 - 0x9fdfff
Segmentation fault
kboot:

This has been happening for several days already, although I don't  
know exactly when it started to happen.  The last working kernel I  
have was built on March 30th.

I'm not sure if the following has anything to do, but note that newer  
kernels show a different string:

ps3:~> file /boot/vmlinuz*
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-rc5-20070330: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, cisco  
7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-rc7-20070418: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC  
or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

At each rebuild, I clean the whole sources, recreate the  
configuration file from ps3_defconfig and build the kernel.

I should also note that in between these tests I updated the Cell SDK  
from 2.0 to 2.1; anyway, IIRC, this also happened before I did this  
update.  Note that kernels built from arnd's cell branch work  
perfectly fine under the IBM SystemSim.

Any idea?

Thank you.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84 at gmail.com>


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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino at ac.upc.edu>