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MIPS: IP22/IP28 Disable early printk to fix boot problems on some sys…
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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@cyrius.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/702/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Martin Michlmayr authored and Ralf Baechle committed Dec 1, 2009
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18 changes: 16 additions & 2 deletions arch/mips/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -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
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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
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