At 5:47 PM +0100 12/7/04, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>The bad news, is that my own kernel exhibits the same "hang after scsi
>devise settle" and then disk activity progresses only if I repeat
>pressing keys on the keyboard.

What is the code in arch/powerpc/powerpc/locore_subr.c -> Idle (it's the
second or third function)? Are you running mesh sync or non-sync?

>Could this be caused by Tim's CPU detect patch? were lately other IRQ
>affecting patches commited?

The CPU detection patch does not affect any IRQs, and once it's reported
the CPU speed has no further interaction with the boot process. :-)

tim