From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?S=E9bastien_Bernard?= Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:05:30 +0000 Subject: Re: Sparc release requalification Message-Id: <4AAF66EA.9010409@frankengul.org> List-Id: References: <4AA427E6.5000801@nerim.net> In-Reply-To: <4AA427E6.5000801@nerim.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org David Miller a =E9crit : > From: Josip Rodin > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:40:22 +0200 > > =20 >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:36:48PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: >> =20 >>>>> 2) Try a UP kernel build, does it work even with all of the NMI >>>>> bits enabled on this machine? >>>>> =20 >>>> Will try and report shortly. >>>> =20 >>> It seems to work just fine without SMP. >>> =20 >> Just in case it might matter: >> =20 > > I was able to reproduce the hang with your originally posted config. > > It only triggers when CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE is enabled, I keep telling > people to turn it off. Nobody should be using it, it either breaks > things or it slows the console down considerably. > > That's it, I'm completely removing that driver from the tree this > merge window, so you guys can't mess it up any more even if you want > to :-) > > > =20 Very good news. I had a lot of trouble because of this. I had to disable it for initcall_debug to work, but then, any kernel=20 patched or not was working. I thought I messed up between patches and built kernels. I realize now that I had the explanation under my nose. Duh.... Seb