[Milkymist-devel] Software task list

[Takeshi MATSUYA]

Hi, Sébastien

On 2010/02/21, at 20:34, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
> * Find out why kernel 2.6.33 freezes when running Busybox init (and fix).
> The symptom is the printing of the message:
> "mount: mounting /dev/root on / failed: Invalid argument"

It is problem of old busybox version.

> followed by a complete system lock-up. If this message is related to the 
> crash, it suggests the mount API might have been changed between 2.6.26 (which 
> works) and 2.6.33.
> Takeshi, do you have more information?

It is seq-lock problem.
New kernel (2.6.33-rc8) and busybox (1.16.0) are here.
http://github.com/tmatsuya/linux-2.6/tree/master/arch/lm32/software/

> * Fix poll() system call
> http://github.com/lekernel/milkymist-linux/issues#issue/10

I already fixed it in the latest kernel.
http://github.com/tmatsuya/linux-2.6/commit/a72b3796c4c99093fbd66fd1553a5e2e50bee215

Could you try it?
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Takeshi
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