From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:09:59 -0800

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> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:02:31PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:59:02 -0800
> > 
> > > What block drivers are you using for sparc?  Scsi?  Or something else?
> > > What could make sparc64 different from x86 in regards to block device
> > > structure, odd...
> > 
> > Only Fusion SAS on this system, therefore scsi.
> 
> Can you send me the output of 'tree /sys/block/' on 2.6.24?
> 
> Are there a lot of partitions here?  Anything different you can think of
> from x86 that I can have a chance to try to narrow things down with?  :)

It's a pretty simple partitioning scheme.

[    0.307823]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4

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> I don't know if you can boot without udev, but if you could, can you
> send the 'tree' output of the offending kernel too?

It actually is able to continue booting after udevd gets
killed off by the OOPS.

I'm going to run a bisect again and get some other info
for you...

Here is the tree output with current GIT:

/sys/block/
|-- loop0 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop0
|-- loop1 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop1
|-- loop2 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop2
|-- loop3 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop3
|-- loop4 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop4
|-- loop5 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop5
|-- loop6 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop6
|-- loop7 -> ../devices/virtual/block/loop7
|-- ram0 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram0
|-- ram1 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram1
|-- ram10 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram10
|-- ram11 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram11
|-- ram12 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram12
|-- ram13 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram13
|-- ram14 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram14
|-- ram15 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram15
|-- ram2 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram2
|-- ram3 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram3
|-- ram4 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram4
|-- ram5 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram5
|-- ram6 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram6
|-- ram7 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram7
|-- ram8 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram8
|-- ram9 -> ../devices/virtual/block/ram9
|-- sda -> ../devices/pci0000:02/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:02.0/0000:0a:00.0/host0/port-0:0/end_device-0:0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
`-- sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:02/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/0000:04:00.0/0000:05:01.0/0000:06:00.0/0000:07:00.2/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0

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