Subject: Re: another interesting observation...
To: None <port-arc@netbsd.org, port-mips@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-arc
Date: 02/10/2001 11:08:49
> I've just cross-compiled init, and the first time it actually came up,
> prompted me for the shell, I hit enter, then it hung.
> I entered DDB, and "ps" showed that the forked process actually execve'd
> to "sh", and "tset" was now running but completely hung.  This is the
> furthest I've gotten, but it was a fluke and never happened again.
> I get the same behavior as before, init just loops forever and nothing
> happens.  I really wish we had trace/u in DDB, but alas.

I have been thinking of EPC register value is sometimes trashed mistakenly,
your com driver is hosed, or SR interrupt bit assignment does not match
with hardware.

Tohru Nishimura