From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765090AbYBZUpl (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:45:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757977AbYBZUp2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:45:28 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52628 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755980AbYBZUp0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:45:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:46:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080226.124611.206089131.davem@davemloft.net> To: mikpe@it.uu.se Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.25-rc3 hangs in early boot on Sun Ultra5 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <18371.10207.58819.188510@alkaid.it.uu.se> References: <18371.10207.58819.188510@alkaid.it.uu.se> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mikael Pettersson Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:41:03 +0100 > Another difference is that with rc2 the first few lines of kernel > output while the console is still in OF mode either aren't shown > or disappear quickly since the switch to the framebuffer occurs > within a fraction of a second after the kernel has been loaded. > With rc3 the kernel output (the text shown above) in the OF-mode > console is very very slow. Yes that's a new feature. Until we switch over to the "real" console we print the log messages using the firmware console routines. This way if an early crash or similar happens, you'll see it and be able to report it instead of having to report with "-p" on the command line. I'll fire up my ultra5 and try to figure out what's wrong with the atyfb framebuffer driver, that's where it's dying.