Further interesting data point:
If I specify "nowait" on the command line, I get much better behavior on
the 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 kernels. In particular, 2.6.37, which hung after
the "Switching to clocksource MIPS" even booting with a single TC, gets
far enough to enable swap space even with 4 TCs running. I note that
there was historically a problem with getting SMTC to work with the
wait-with-interrupts-disabled idle wait mode. I had it working back in
2.5.2x, but something seems to have gotten broken in that 2.6.32 to
2.6.36 interval...
Regards,
Kevin K.
