Katmai w/ DENX git - "init has generated signal 4" error
Valentine Barshak
vbarshak at ru.mvista.com
Wed Jun 27 03:58:23 EST 2007
Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:02 -0400, Stephen Winiecki wrote:
>
>>> I'm using the Denx linux-2.6-denx.git repository with a Katmai board. I
>>> want to boot off a disk (initialized w/ Debian 4.0). I've installed a
>>> Promise Ultra133 Tx2 IDE controller card in the PCI slot, and configured
>>>
>>> it in the kernel. I boot this same disk w/ IDE card on other 4xx
>>>
>> boards
>>
>>> without a problem (Bamboo w/ Denx 4.1 for example). I am getting an
>>>
>> error
>>
>>> "init has generated signal 4 but has no handler for it".
>>>
>> I believe the problem may be due to lack of HW FP on the processor(?).
>> Copying an embedded 440 RFS on disk works OK.
>>
>
> Signal 4 is SIGILL, which could be returned for float instructions I
> suppose. Try turning on CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION in your kernel config for
> Katmai and see if the problem goes away.
>
> josh
>
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Looks like 440SPe entry is missing in the arch/ppc/kernel/cputable.c
Thanks.
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