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>
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 1aad0d9..42e1ac1 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ 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.
+# select SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL
select SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL
select SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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