Bug#466977: 2.6.24-1-sb1-bcm91250a mipsel hangs running init

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 
> Package: linux-image-2.6.24-1-sb1-bcm91250a
> Version: 2.6.24-4
> Arch: mipsel
> 
> Hi,
> running on a Broadcom SB1 *little endian* the kernel hangs trying to run
> init. The old 2.6.17 works (linux-image-2.6.17-1-sb1 version 2.6.17-5):

Same for big endian.

[...]
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed

I tracked that down (in linux-mips.org's 2.6.16 tree, which was my
testcase of choice) to:
http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=commit;h=3a57f2ad7436d27dfa90717921b921fc3a168504


Thiemo