[coreboot] Kernel hang solid

[ron minnich]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Vincent Legoll
> <vincent.legoll at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tested 2.6.{23,24,25} they all hang the same way at the same place:
>> the first console_initcall() (which I don't know if it is the serial one or
>> the vga one)
>
> I've narrowed it to the
> down(&console_sem) in acquire_console_sem() in kernel/printk.c
> called from con_init() in drivers/char/vt.c
>
> I suspect the spin_lock_irqsave() in there hanging...
>
> I have a lot of CONNFIG_DEBUG_ options activated, especially
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, but in vain...
>
> So is there something I can do to narrow the problem.
> How can I validate my irq setup ?
>

I don't know but when it gets this weird it can actually be memory ...

ron