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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:     David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc:     Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: booting linux-3.3 or linux 3.4 on an SGI O2?
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:08:43PM -0700, David Daney wrote:

> On 06/05/2012 12:00 PM, Jim Faulkner wrote:
> >Hi all, I haven't been able to boot any kernels after linux 3.2 on my
> >SGI O2.  I've tried linux-3.3.5 and linux-3.4.0, but neither would boot.
> >Unfortunately I don't have further information such as a kernel panic,
> >since I don't get any video output after the kernel is loaded.  I've
> >attached my linux-3.4 .config.  Anybody know what patches I might need
> >to get the latest kernels booting on this system?
> >
> 
> I have had problems as well.
> 
> Someone should configure a serial console and early printk to see if
> they can see what is happening.

Could one of you bisect the bug?

  Ralf