Re: Kernel is stuck in Calibrating delay loop

[wu zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Ardelean, Andrei
<Andrei.Ardelean@idt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am porting MIPS Malta on a new platform and during the boot process
> the Kernel remains in a infinite loop in "Calibrating delay loop ..." in
> calibrate.c.
> I checked and the timer interrupt which is supposed to be wired on h/w 5
> interrupt (MIPS 7 irq) is not activated in MIPS Status.IM7 register.
> Where in the Kernel the MIPS irq wired to the timer interrupt needs to
> be enabled?  Can I use enable_irq()?
> On my platform I don't have any 8259 and I am trying to use MIPS
> Count/Compare internal timer for Kernel tick.

Did you select the r4k timer for your platform?

arch/mips/Kconfig:

config MIPS_MALTA
        [snip]
        select CEVT_R4K
        select CSRC_R4K
        [snip]

And please check if arch/mips/kernel/*r4k.c are compiled into your kernel image.

Regards,
Wu Zhangjin