Subject: Re: New kernel sources and bugs fixes
To: Chris Gilbert <cg110@york.ac.uk>
From: Mark Brinicombe <amb@physig.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/25/1997 15:27:06
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Mark Brinicombe wrote:
> > Also I think I have fixed the hangup on reboot problem that people have
> > been experiencing. This affected primarily SA110 systems.
> > The problem was in the final stage of the reboot when interrupts are
> > disabled, the MMU and cache are turned off and the ROM is re-entered at
> > 0x00000000.
>
> Not sure if this is related, but I've started to find that the kernel
> (sa110-4956) seems to hang after blanking the screen after the
> count-down. Anyone else found this?
yep this is related. Sometimes the mahcine hangs at the end of the coutn
down when the ROM is reentered. Sometimes the RiscOS partially restarts
and then get killed due to the cache hits. It was very dependant on what
addresses were in the cache when the ROM was entered.
Cheers,
Mark