Some Debian users have reported that the kernel hangs early during boot on some IP22 systems. Thomas Bogendoerfer found that this is due to a "bad interaction between CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK and overwritten prom memory during early boot". Since there's no fix yet, disable CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK for now. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index 1aad0d9..42e1ac1 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ config SGI_IP22 select SWAP_IO_SPACE select SYS_HAS_CPU_R4X00 select SYS_HAS_CPU_R5000 - select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK +# Disable EARLY_PRINTK for now since it leads to overwritten prom memory +# during early boot on some machines. +# select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/
