Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

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Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>:
>> only lifimage.old is able to boot on a subject machine. Other bring it
>> into an endless "HP SDC: Transaction add failed: transaction already
>> queued ?" print loop.
>
>
> Ok, I found this kernel commit:
>
> commit 305e342bba16730a0821131af6d7d0df43bfff4c
> Author: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> Date:   Mon Jul 14 10:28:32 2008 -0400
>
>     Input: add option to disable HP SDC driver
>         Add "no_hpsdc" kernel module option to the hp_sdc driver, so that
>     the driver can be instructed to not enable the HP SDC port.
>         This is useful on some older HPPA boxes with HIL keyboard
>     and HIL mouse where the new HP SDC HIL drivers don't work
>     yet. By disabling the new hp_sdc driver users are able to use
>     the older hilkbd driver instead.
>
> Can you try to boot with the "no_hpsdc=1" kernel parameter ?
>
> But I don't think the hp_sdc driver is the real issue why one lifimage
> boots while the other doesn't...
>

Doesn't make difference.
BTW, the boot hangs if I put this parameter not at the end of boot
arguments line (i.e. after TERM=linux), but somewhere in the middle.