I changed my toolchain and rebuilt the kernel image. This time all the messages below magically displayed on the serial port. :-D Are all these the early debugging messages?
> Here is the kernel log buf dump. Anything suspicious? > > <6>Using My MPC870 machine description > <5>Linux version 2.6.33.5 (sh...@ubuntu) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) > #10 Mon Jul 5 22:58:30 PDT 2010 > <7>Top of RAM: 0x8000000, Total RAM: 0x8000000 > <7>Memory hole size: 0MB > <4>Zone PFN ranges: ... <snipped> ... > <7>time_init: decrementer frequency = 3.750000 MHz > <7>time_init: processor frequency = 120.000000 MHz > <6>clocksource: timebase mult[42aaaaab] shift[22] registered > <7>clockevent: decrementer mult[f5c28f] shift[32] cpu[0] > <7> alloc irq_desc for 18 on node 0 > <7> alloc kstat_irqs on node 0 > <7>irq: irq 4 on host /s...@fa200000/c...@9c0/interrupt-control...@930 > mapped to virtual irq 18 Now the kernel stuck at the while loop that waits for transmitter fifo to be empty. It seems that the CPM UART stopped working in the middle of printing a message. I'm using minicom to connect to the serial port. I heard minicom is problematic. Will it be the cause here? (gdb) target remote ppcbdi:2001 Remote debugging using ppcbdi:2001 0xc00f348c in cpm_uart_console_write (co=<value optimized out>, s=0xc0174df3 "console [ttyCPM0] enabled, bootconsole disabled\n", count=48) at /home/rayan/wti/code/wti-linux-2.6.33.5/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h:154 154 DEF_MMIO_IN_BE(in_be16, 16, lhz); (gdb) next 1161 while ((in_be16(&bdp->cbd_sc) & BD_SC_READY) != 0) (gdb) next 154 DEF_MMIO_IN_BE(in_be16, 16, lhz); (gdb) next 1161 while ((in_be16(&bdp->cbd_sc) & BD_SC_READY) != 0) (gdb) list 1156 for (i = 0; i < count; i++, s++) { 1157 /* Wait for transmitter fifo to empty. 1158 * Ready indicates output is ready, and xmt is doing 1159 * that, not that it is ready for us to send. 1160 */ 1161 while ((in_be16(&bdp->cbd_sc) & BD_SC_READY) != 0) 1162 ; 1163 1164 /* Send the character out. 1165 * If the buffer address is in the CPM DPRAM, don't Thanks, -Shawn. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev