Re: RAMDISK on EP88xc

Just as an intermediate update on the issue, I've made progress and it
hangs later down the line, see below:
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Using Embedded Planet EP88xC machine description
Linux version 2.6.30-rc2-01402-gd4e2f68-dirty (devone@localhost.localdoma=

in) (gc

c version 4.2.2) #3 Thu Jul 2 11:00:54 CDT 2009
Found initrd at 0xc3dbb000:0xc3f6d056
Zone PFN ranges:
=A0DMA =A0 =A0 =A00x00000000 -> 0x00004000
=A0Normal =A0 0x00004000 -> 0x00004000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
=A0 =A00: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000
MMU: Allocated 72 bytes of context maps for 16 contexts
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. =A0Total pages: 16=

256

Kernel command line: console=3DttyCPM0,9600n8 root=3D/dev/ram loglevel=3D=

7 init=3D/sbin/

init
NR_IRQS:512
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
Decrementer Frequency =3D 0x5f5e10
clocksource: timebase mult[28000000] shift[22] registered
console [ttyCPM0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 60716k/65536k available (2136k kernel code, 4752k reserved, 100k =

data, 9

9k bss, 112k init)
SLUB: Genslabs=3D12, HWalign=3D16, Order=3D0-3, MinObjects=3D0, CPUs=3D1,=

 Nodes=3D1

Calibrating delay loop... 12.39 BogoMIPS (lpj=3D61952)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
net_namespace: 296 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
checking if image is initramfs...
rootfs image is not initramfs (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1736k freed
msgmni has been set to 122
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
f0000a80.serial: ttyCPM0 at MMIO 0xc500ea80 (irq =3D 19) is a CPM UART
f0000a20.serial: ttyCPM1 at MMIO 0xc5016a20 (irq =3D 29) is a CPM UART
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
eth0: fs_enet: 00:00:00:00:00:00
eth1: fs_enet: 00:00:00:00:00:00
FEC MII Bus: probed
fe000000.flash: Found 2 x16 devices at 0x0 in 32-bit bank
=A0Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
fe000000.flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 1:0.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k init
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Now searching for cause, looks like it's "init" related...

Wow... I just found out that it's not actually "hanging" at this
point.. it's just working in "slow motion"... I found out by leaving
the machine and coming back half an hour later to find additional
output and eventually even a prompt.

Here is what's happening:
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RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 1:0.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k init

<4 minutes pass>

init started: BusyBox v1.7.1 (2008-04-02 09:14:47 MEST)

<2 minutes pass>

starting pid 403, tty '': '/etc/rc.sh'

< etc... >
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I've tried a couple different ramdisk images (another one with a much
older version of busybox), with similar results. Anybody have an idea
about what's going on here?