Bug#507557: same hang as 507557 on SGI Indy

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> [2009-02-23 18:55]:
> > The kernel hangs early at boot on an Indigo2:
> > 
> > [    0.000000]  bank1: 128M @ 10000000
> > [    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
> > [    0.000000]  memory: 0000000010000000 @ 0000000008000000 (usable)
> > [    0.000000] Wasting 1835008 bytes for tracking 32768 unused pages
> > [    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
> > [    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
> > [    0.000000]   Normal      32768 ->    98304
> > [    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
> > [    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
> > [    0.000000]     0:    32768 ->    98304
> 
> I'm experience a similar hand at the same place on a SGI Indy (with r5k
> processor). It hangs at the same place, still outputting to the PROM console
> and not yet switched to framebuffer. (From memory, that messages looks
> quite like that. Only difference I see is one instead of two banks of
> memory).

Thomas, do you have any idea why some users see this problem with the
Debian kernel (when the upstream 2.6.26 kernel apparently works fine)?

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Martin Michlmayr
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