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MIPS: IP22/IP28 Disable EARLY_PRINTK on make the system boot

PATCH New Ralf Baechle 1 participant 1 message Nov 24, 2009 MIPS

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PATCH 1/1 MIPS: IP22/IP28 Disable EARLY_PRINTK on make the system boot

From: Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]>

Some Debian users have reported that the kernel hangs early during boot on some IP22 systems. Thomas Bogendoerfer found that this is due to a "bad interaction between CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK and overwritten prom memory during early boot". Since there's no fix yet, disable CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK for now.

Cc Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]>
Cc Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]>
Cc Dmitri Vorobiev <[email protected]>

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This version also disables early printk for IP28.

arch/mips/Kconfig +16 -2
index 1aad0d9..ffdd651 100644
@@ -358,7 +358,14 @@ config SGI_IP22
 	select SWAP_IO_SPACE
 	select SYS_HAS_CPU_R4X00
 	select SYS_HAS_CPU_R5000
-	select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
+	#
+	# Disable EARLY_PRINTK for now since it leads to overwritten prom
+	# memory during early boot on some machines.
+	#
+	# See http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20091119164009.GA15038%40deprecation.cyrius.com
+	# for a more details discussion
+	#
+	# select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
@@ -410,7 +417,14 @@ config SGI_IP28
 	select SGI_HAS_ZILOG
 	select SWAP_IO_SPACE
 	select SYS_HAS_CPU_R10000
-	select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
+	#
+	# Disable EARLY_PRINTK for now since it leads to overwritten prom
+	# memory during early boot on some machines.
+	#
+	# See http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20091119164009.GA15038%40deprecation.cyrius.com
+	# for a more details discussion
+	#
+	# select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
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