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authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2015-03-30 17:38:09 +1100
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2015-04-10 20:02:48 +1000
commit7e862d7e7d118e3becc5b495af10ca076f087180 (patch)
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parentf691fa1080c37c48da0cdfeae082c3bef5df2643 (diff)
downloadlinux-7e862d7e7d118e3becc5b495af10ca076f087180.tar.gz
powerpc: Reword the "returning from prom_init" message
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 <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wistfully-Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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