We get way too many bug reports that say "the kernel is hung in
prom_init", which stems from the fact that the last piece of output
people see is "returning from prom_init".
The kernel is almost never hung in prom_init(), it's just that it's
crashed somewhere after prom_init() but prior to the console coming up.
The existing message should give a clue to that, ie. "returning from"
indicates that prom_init() has finished, but it doesn't seem to work.
Let's try something different.
This prints:
Quiescing Open Firmware ...
Booting Linux via __start() ...
Which hopefully makes it clear that prom_init() is not the problem, and
although __start() probably isn't either, it's at least the right place
to begin looking.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index 1a85d8f96739..fd1fe4c37599 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -2898,7 +2898,7 @@ unsigned long __init prom_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned
long r4,
* Call OF "quiesce" method to shut down pending DMA's from
* devices etc...
*/
- prom_printf("Calling quiesce...\n");
+ prom_printf("Quiescing Open Firmware ...\n");
call_prom("quiesce", 0, 0);
/*
@@ -2910,7 +2910,7 @@ unsigned long __init prom_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned
long r4,
/* Don't print anything after quiesce under OPAL, it crashes OFW */
if (of_platform != PLATFORM_OPAL) {
- prom_printf("returning from prom_init\n");
+ prom_printf("Booting Linux via __start() ...\n");
prom_debug("->dt_header_start=0x%x\n", hdr);
}
--
2.1.0
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