From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx> 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> Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This version also disables early printk for IP28. diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index 1aad0d9..ffdd651 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -358,7 +358,14 @@ 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. + # + # See http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20091119164009.GA15038%40deprecation.cyrius.com + # for a more details discussion + # + # select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN @@ -410,7 +417,14 @@ config SGI_IP28 select SGI_HAS_ZILOG select SWAP_IO_SPACE select SYS_HAS_CPU_R10000 - select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK + # + # Disable EARLY_PRINTK for now since it leads to overwritten prom + # memory during early boot on some machines. + # + # See http://www.linux-mips.org/cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=linux-mips&i=20091119164009.GA15038%40deprecation.cyrius.com + # for a more details discussion + # + # select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN help
