imx27 - hanging at freeing init memory -- getting some junk characters here after on console ..

[daniel@caiaq.de (Daniel Mack)]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:09:32PM +0530, Vadivelan M wrote:
>      I am porting Linux-2.6.28 Kernel on IMX27based board.
>      Filesystem is mounted and after that we are getting message Freeing init
>      memory and some junk characters are coming. Keyboards are responding.
>      Can anybody help us in this regard.
> 
>      Thanks,
> 
>      Please see the following logs ..
> 
>      Launch LinuxUncompressing
>      Linux......................................................................
>      done, booting the kernel.
>      Linux version 2.6.28-arm2 (root at localhost.localdomain) (gcc version
>      4.1.1) #75 Wed Oct 28 13:12:53 IST 2009
>      CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069264] revision 4 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177
>      CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
>      Machine: Freescale i.MX27ADS
>      Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram rw mem=64M console=ttymxc0,115200

Your kernel uses 115200 baud to output these messages ...

[...]

>      EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
>      VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>      Freeing init memory: 92K
> 
>      After this some junk characters are coming like ....
> 
>      ��֍�򁰠0^ޝ��r�'���j��r:�������:��M�.��D�d�z.?��.T��8V�`�T���V잊]nn]^ｸ�m8m��^�.�m�.E��N��8��6���:]���

... and in your inittab, there seems to be a getty registered which
operates at a different speed. Change either of the two and you should
be fine.

Daniel