init hang after upgrading ARM-Linux toolchain

[Bill Gatliff]

Matthew:

Creech, Matthew L wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using a 2.6.16 kernel on an AT91 ARM board.  With all the positive
>reports recently of people using gcc-4/EABI/NTPL, I decided to make a
>clean break and try my luck with a new toolchain.  I applied Michael
>Edwards' variation on Martin Guy's patch to crosstool-0.42:
>
>http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2006-04/msg00187.html
>
>This toolchain produced a [seemingly] working kernel, but the system
>would hang after "freeing init memory".  I re-built the
>gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.4 toolchain for an "arm-linux" target (non-EABI) to
>see if that would help isolate the problem.  The new toolchain exhibits
>the same behavior as the old one, so EABI doesn't seem to be the
>problem, as far as I can tell.
>  
>

Is your console pointed to a live device?  Is your inittab different 
between the two kernels, and one of them is aiming your console to the 
wrong serial port/device?


b.g.

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