On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:48:55PM -0400, Jim Faulkner wrote: > The most recent working kernel I have is 2.6.20 from the gentoo 2007.0 > livecd. I'm pretty sure I tried a 2.6.26 boot CD that failed, so I > assume that the problems begin sometime between those versions. > > I'm happy to try different kernels from 2.6.20 onwards until I hit the > bug, thought it will take me some time to work through them. Also > unfortunately the keep_bootcon patch > (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/78102/) doesn't apply cleanly to > 2.6.20, which I would need to see the kernel panics. I'll get started > and let you know when I track down where the problems begin. IIRC older versions allowed us to specify "-p" as a parameter that had the same effect. If that doesn't work, you can also get the same by messing with the CON_BOOT bit in a different place... [googling...] here we go, try the patch at the bottom of http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/14614/ Also the same bug report happens to have another possibly useful hint - the 'initcall_debug=1 ignore_loglevel' options. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
