On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:34 AM, Gabe Black wrote: > I fixed the segfaults I was getting and now init (or libc or the > linker) ends up waiting forever for the UART. I'm not sure what's > happening there, but I think the kernel is waiting for either an > interrupt or a particular register value that never shows up. I'm > betting it's an interrupt. It could be a serial interrupt, it could be an interrupt from another device.
> > > In any case, I want to make sure that once things are working I'll > actually see a login prompt and not get stuck by some dumb > configuration > issue. I notice in the Alpha inittab there's a line which says: > > console::respawn:/sbin/getty -L 115200 /dev/tts/0 vt100 > > Is that materially different from the one in the Gentoo image which > has the following? > > s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100 > > That line was commented out so I uncommented it. I'm guessing it's > effectively the same thing, but I'm not very familiar with how this > stuff works so I'm not sure. There are a lot of other lines as well > which I'm trusting (hoping) aren't interfering with this one somehow. I'm pretty sure they're effectively the same thing. Passing a console= parameter on the command line (like we do for alpha) will make sure you get a login on that port. Ali _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
