Subject: Re: Current ARM kernels hang during bootstrap
To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 01/17/2004 21:19:04
On Saturday 17 January 2004 4:03 pm, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> Loosing the interrupt and fault vectors is obviously somewhat
> fatal to the health of the machine.
>
> Have you any idea what might be the cause of this change in
> behaviour?
It worked previously because the vector page was no longer resident in
the L1 when the pmap was destroyed, as the kernel had already switched
to the reaper (see cpu_switch()).
I'm going to have to think about the best way to deal with this in the
new world order.
Cheers, Steve