Re: Sparc release requalification
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:32:43PM +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,
> > };
>
> I tried this patch, and the box still hangs early during boot with the
> latest kernel from unstable, even though console handover does not
> appear to be happening anymore. Here's the last screenful of messages
> I see on the serial console:
>
> [ 61.022933] Brought up 2 CPUs
> [ 61.024050] net_namespace: 1936 bytes
> [ 61.200137] regulator: core version 0.5
> [ 61.245754] NET: Registered protocol family 16
> [ 61
>
> It just hangs right there, with the last string only partially displayed
> and cursor blinking right after '61'.
Ugh. I guess you need to git bisect then.
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