Re: Sparc release requalification

[Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:30:29PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > > the sid kernels are not booting on my machine (SunBlade 1000), and I have
> > > an independent confirmation from someone with a similar machine that they
> > > are experiencing similar problems - I'm going to file a bug for that if
> > > the situation does not improve with the next kernel upload.
> > 
> > What seems to be the problem? FWIW the prtconfs.git repo has two SB1000
> > entries one of which is davem's, so we should have upstream support for
> > this at least.
> 
> After the message mentioning the console handoff from earlyprom to a real
> console it proceeds to clear the screen, however after a couple of lines
> it hangs.

Did you try to avoid the handoff? That patch davem keeps telling people to
try when something like this happens:

--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ unsigned long cmdline_memory_size = 0;
 static struct console prom_early_console = {
        .name =         "earlyprom",
        .write =        prom_console_write,
-       .flags =        CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT | CON_ANYTIME,
+       .flags =        CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME,
        .index =        -1,
 };

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