console on POWER4 not working with 2.6.15

[Olaf Hering]

 On Thu, Dec 22, Paul Mackeras wrote:

> Olaf Hering writes:
> 
> > I finally managed to find the culprit.
> > 
> > good: 25635c71e44111a6bd48f342e144e2fc02d0a314
> > bad:  f9bd170a87948a9e077149b70fb192c563770fdf
> > 
> > ...
> > powerpc: Merge i8259.c into arch/powerpc/sysdev
> > 
> > This changes the parameters for i8259_init so that it takes two
> > parameters: a physical address for generating an interrupt
> > acknowledge cycle, and an interrupt number offset.  i8259_init
> > now sets the irq_desc[] for its interrupts; all the callers
> > were doing this, and that code is gone now.  This also defines
> > a CONFIG_PPC_I8259 symbol to select i8259.o for inclusion, and
> > makes the platforms that need it select that symbol.
> 
> Try this patch... it fixes things on the p630 at work.

This fixes it also for me. Thanks.

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