From patchwork Mon Jan 19 03:11:38 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: David Miller X-Patchwork-Id: 19245 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B84DDE036 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:11:39 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757386AbZASDLi (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:11:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757538AbZASDLi (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:11:38 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43815 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757386AbZASDLh (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:11:37 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sunset.davemloft.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23715C8C189; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:11:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:11:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090118.191138.219656360.davem@davemloft.net> To: nick.leippe@whitecanyon.com Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: config for v880 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <200901181621.21213.nick.leippe@whitecanyon.com> References: <200901160946.41267.nick.leippe@whitecanyon.com> <20090117.231603.123735894.davem@davemloft.net> <200901181621.21213.nick.leippe@whitecanyon.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: sparclinux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org From: Nicholas Leippe Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:21:21 -0700 > So far, I've had it hang at various different points. > > One of which is at: > > ... > console handover: boot [earlyprom0] -> real [tty0] When this happens you won't be able to see the crash message because it is being output in between dropping the early PROM console and enabling the serial or framebuffer console. With the patch below (or something like it, it's very easy to apply this patch by hand if the one below doesn't work for you) you are more likely to see the crash message. > another (which was on a 480r, not sure if same prob on 880) was: > > ... > rtc0 = alarms up to one no, 114 bytes nvram > > notice the "no" instead of "month" for example. This doesn't really indicate much. Anyways, here is the patch for the other case so you can try to fetch some more logging info: --- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c index c8b03a4..2c50796 100644 --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ unsigned long cmdline_memory_size = 0; static struct console prom_early_console = { .name = "earlyprom", .write = prom_console_write, - .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT | CON_ANYTIME, + .flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME, .index = -1, };