Strange OF display while booting

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>With recent BenH kernels, the early boot messages (before switching to
>aty128fb in my case) are messed up. The first few messages start in the
>middle of the top row, with some white areas to the left of the
>messages, then at the middle hight of the screen there's a white area
>spannig all the width, and below that the text messages are aligned
>correctly again to the left edge of the screen.
>
>FWIW, this was not the case with older kernels (2.4.5-pre3 comes to
>mind).
>
>Maybe somenody will know what changed...

That code have been hacked a bit by both paulus and me lately. Can
you try out my current rsync ?

There were several issue, including some miscalculation of the display
BAT, and some problems writing to some old machine framebuffer with
cache enabled. I moved out the bootx text from prom.c and now start
displaying things only in platform_init (where we have the display BAT
set to non-cachable).

Ben.


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