From 2b5e63f6b8f6566161a261a9face1de433d6608e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Michlmayr Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:40:09 +0000 Subject: MIPS: IP22/IP28 Disable early printk to fix boot problems on some systems. 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. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Dmitri Vorobiev Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/702/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle --- arch/mips/Kconfig | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/mips') diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index 1aad0d9f5074..ffdd651c54b1 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -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 help -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151