Jonathan, The pointer towards
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux-2.6&ver=3.2~rc4-1~experimental.1&arch=armel is a good one. I read it and the build died because of a problem in arch/arm/include/asm/bug.h - quite a few of us have known about this problem, but it has been taken care of in 3.3, IIRC. It is my guess that the 3.2~rc7 prolly died for the same reason. This particular error, though, I believe is a red herring. I answered your queries below, inline. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, you're right. > > After a little more investigation, the grounds for my guess were wrong > anyway. I guess I would want to know instead: > > - where can I read a little about the many users experiencing this? > (e.g., was there a mailing list discussion?) That might help in > pinning down relevant variables. > Well, here are three different discussions: 1. debian users @ doozan/dockstar/debian forum http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,6550,6550#msg-6550 **note: the thread title is __misleading__ ... 3.1.x is working fine, only 3.2 & greater are showing this compression problem 2. http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2314&sid=5bdde26688b00721aaaca66b564cd2a8 (there is an issue mentioned here regarding kmod and udev, but that, I believe is unrelated to the noboot/compressedkernel problem) 3. http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=6029.0 > > - what is the newest version you know of that worked? One can use > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux-2.6&arch=armel to > find which versions actually got built on arm, or something like > 3.1.10 works perfectly for me. 3.2 and beyond all seem to suffer from the same problem w/ a stall/hang, as is shown in my serial output. Again, we cannot boot the uImage from either your official package 3.2.2 that is in Sid, nor can we boot a uImage that we natively or w/ a toolchain. Same symptoms for all. OTOH, an uncompressed vmlinux.bin (from objcopy) does when substituted for the uImage file. > > fakeroot debian/rules source > fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen binary-arch_armel_none_kirkwood > > to build a version if you have the source installed. > > Sorry for the confusion, > Jonathan >
