From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <11915.128.107.253.38.1110601785.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:29:45 -0600 Subject: Re: [9fans] quotefmtinstall From: vdharani@infernopark.com To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 237e1016-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I think that's ok, it's PIC until I load the MMU. > > I'm actually getting into calling functions , returning, etc. It's havi= ng > some trouble in lock, it looks like, which I don't understand. > > I think it may be splhi, actually; probably some wrong bit that doesn't > match the SA1100 (I assumed CPSR would stay the same but I guess not). what would happen if you simply mask splhi (say you replace with a return)? that way, wont it be possible to see atleast whether it progresses? i am not an expert in this area but i remember i faced similar problem when i tried with an x86 box. in my case, the board was freezing during bootup and i found that it happened when the ethernet interrupt tried to do locking or so which led to splhi it caused the problem. and it happene= d only when i enabled the third ethernet port (all being Reaktek 8139C). it was fine as long as i used just the first two ports. i tried this experiment many years before and i vaguely remember i tried to mask splhi= . thanks dharani in my case, i fugured that it was working fine as long as i use upto two ethernet ports.