[Buildroot] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[Daniel Mack]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:19:35PM -0400, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:43 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >
> > Do you compile your kernel with Buildroot, or do you compile it
> > manually ? If compiled manually, is CONFIG_AEABI enabled in your kernel
> > configuration ?
> 
> The kernel and rootfs are both created with Buildroot.
> 
> For the kernel config I have:
> 
> CONFIG_AEABI=y
> CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT=y

Just a side note: for performance reasons, you shouldn't enable
OABI_COMPAT unless you really can't know which binaries the kernel will
execute.

See http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort for some more details.

Other than that, your problem could also be related to VFP emulation
issues. I had such awhile back.

Daniel