It looks like the BDI2000 debugger caused the problem. The kernel
boots fine after removing the debugger.
Thank you very much for all your replies!
Edward
On 6/6/05, Edward Hong <edward.qin.hong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/6/05, Randy Vinson <rvinson at mvista.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Edward,
> > I've seen these symptoms before. The problem was traced to external
> > interrupts being disabled (MSR[EE] not set). Without external
> > interrupts, there is no decrementer interrupt (at least on 7xx
> > processors). Without the decrementer, there in no system clock tick and
> > without the clock tick, the scheduler won't run which means that the
> > init task won't start. To verify that this is the problem, use mfmsr()
> > to get the MSR and print it. I'd suggest that you add something like:
> >
> > printk("MSR = %x\n", mfmsr());
> >
> I got MSR = 9032 just before cpu_idle which means EE (the most
> significant bit) was enabled.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Edward
>
