[Milkymist-devel] Linux Porting Issues

[Takeshi MATSUYA]

 > Did you write this patch entirely by yourself?
Yes.

 > Is it part of a university project or something?
No.

 >> 1. System cal interrupt stack problem.(entry.s)
 > Can you elaborate?
 > I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean about the interrupt  
stack
 > problem.

Sorry, I am analyzing now.
Just a moment.

 > And the serial driver is obviously working - how would you see the
 > boot messages otherwise?
 > [42949378.240000] RAMDISK: Loading 4096KiB [1 disk] into ram disk...

Because, boot console disable function is killed.
in kernel/printk.c (line 1171-1179)

 > |/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/- 
¥|/-

 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-
 > ¥|/-¥|/-¥|/-¥done.
 > [42949381.540000] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
 >
 > Does the kernel really prints out that garbage (the strange non-ASCII
 > characters)? This would be really bad...

It was normal character.
Just a loading mark.
1."/"
2."-"
3."¥"
4."|"
5.repeat

Takeshi Matsuya
Keio University.