Hi, 2.6.21 with patches from OpenWrt works for AR7 with CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK and real hardware or QEMU emulation. Maybe I can compare it to Malta tomorrow.
Perhaps some environment settings are missing for early printk and result in a crash... Stefan Aurelien Jarno schrieb: > Hi all, > > Since I switch to 2.6.21 kernel on my emulated Malta board (QEMU), I > have noticed something strange. The kernel starts to boot up to the > timer calibration, and then it restart the boot again. A small example: > > ... > > I have traced the problem down to the CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK option. > Disabling it in the .config file (be aware that running make *config > will reenable this function), removes the problem. > > The problem occurs for kernel 2.6.21 from both linux-mips.org and > kernel.org, on both endianness, and for both 32- and 64-bit kernels. > > It would be nice if somebody could tell me if the real board (I don't > own one) suffers from the same problem or not, so that I can look for a > possible bug in QEMU. > > Thanks, > Aurelien >
