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Re: Marvell DB-88F5181-DDR1 - after "Uncompressing..." nothing more appear



* Federico Briata <federicobriata@gmail.com> [2009-04-05 11:27]:
> By following those links
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/45598
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Arm/OtherPlatforms
> and I tried to compile a new linux kernel for Marvell DB-88F5181-DDR1

What devices are you trying this on, what is DB-88F5181-DDR1 and which
system did you compile for?

Anyway, I suspect the problem is that you're not setting the right
machine ID.

You can find out what's going on by setting CONFIG_DEBUG_LL=y and
applying the following patch (thanks to Lennert Buytenhek):

--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+extern void printascii(char *);
+
 /*
  *  linux/kernel/printk.c
  *
@@ -686,6 +688,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 	printed_len += vscnprintf(printk_buf + printed_len,
 				  sizeof(printk_buf) - printed_len, fmt, args);
 
+	printascii(printk_buf);
 
 	/*
 	 * Copy the output into log_buf.  If the caller didn't provide

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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