From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:04:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from no-dns-yet.demon.co.uk ([IPv6:::ffff:80.176.203.50]:2529 "EHLO pangolin.localnet") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:04:11 +0100 Received: from sprocket.localnet ([192.168.1.27]) by pangolin.localnet with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DKyaD-00015w-00; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:04:05 +0100 Message-ID: <425A75C2.80802@colonel-panic.org> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:04:02 +0100 From: Peter Horton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: Peter Horton , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH Cobalt 1/3] fix hang on Qube2700 boot References: <20050410130635.GA20589@skeleton-jack> <20050411122724.GU7038@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20050411122724.GU7038@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7680 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: pdh@colonel-panic.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle wrote: >On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 02:06:35PM +0100, Peter Horton wrote: > > > >>The Qube2700 boot hangs because the old "prom" style console is >>unconditionally enabled. Drop the "prom" console code from the build. It >>would only be used if no "console=" line was supplied and in that case >>the current 8250 code defaults to using ttyS0 at 9600 anyway (assuming a >>port exists). >> >> > >Ok, applied - but that leaves the unused arch/mips/cobalt/promcon.c around. >Guess it should die as well? > > > Yep, probably. It was handy for debugging very early boot, but it's not worth cluttering the tree with it. P.