Can't start L4Linux-2.6.18

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 17:55:47 +0100, FERANDELLE Pascal wrote:
> In august, I tested L4Linux on PC, and everything was working fine with L4Linux-2.6.17.
> Now, I get the snapshots of 20061116, and rebuild everything.
> The L4Linux kernel is now 2.6.18.
> The build is ok, but I can't start it under Fiasco.
> 
> Here is the log :
> 
> Welcome to Fiasco(ia32)!
> DD-L4(v2)/x86 microkernel (C) 1998-2006 TU Dresden
> Rev: Sat Nov 11 18:26:23 2006 compiled with gcc 3.4.6 for Intel Pentium
> Performance-critical config option(s) detected:
>   CONFIG_ASSEMBLER_IPC_SHORTCUT is off
>   CONFIG_NDEBUG is off
> 
> Enabling special fully nested mode for PIC
> Using the PIT (i8254) on IRQ 0 for scheduling
> SERIAL ESC: allocated IRQ 4 for serial uart
> SERIAL ESC: allocated IRQ 4 for serial uart
> Not using serial hack in slow timer handler.
> Absolute KIP Syscalls using: Sysenter
> CPU: GenuineIntel (F:4:9:0) Model: Pentium 4E (Prescott/Nocona) at 2793 MHz
> 
>   64 Entry I TLB (4K or 4M pages)
>   64 Entry D TLB (4k or 4M pages)
>  12K µ-ops T Cache (8-way associative)
>   16 KB L1 D Cache (8-way associative, 64 bytes per line)
> 1024 KB L2 U Cache (8-way associative, 64 bytes per line)
> 
> Freeing init code/data: 20480 bytes (5 pages)
> 
> SIGMA0: Hello!
> ...
> ...
> l4lx    | ======> L4Linux 2.6 starting... <========
> l4lx    | Linux version 2.6.18-l4 (root at PClinux) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 Fri Dec
> l4lx    :  1 18:41:42 CET 2006
> l4lx    | Binary name: vmlinuz26
> l4lx    | Kernel command line (7 args): earlyprintk=yes mem=64M video=l4fb load
> l4lx    : _ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram l4env_rd=test-rd.rd
> l4lx    | The running kernel does not have the
> l4lx    |       exception_ipc
> l4lx    | feature enabled!
> 
> Of course, I have the exception_ipc feature enabled in Fiasco !!!

By any chance, do you have CONFIG_REGPARM enabled? Disable it.
(I recently added a check for that config option...)



Adam
-- 
Adam                 adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
  Lackorzynski         http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~adam/