Hi again,
I just took the time to play a bit with this interrupt thing.
When commenting out the line as proposed by Aaron, the timer is (obviously) not running any more. For me, this gives problems because the timeouts for e.g. FPGA programming can not be checked any more.
I tried adding a line
disable_interrupts();
immediately before the jump to the kernel in lib_m68k/m68k_linux.c, but without success. However, using
interrupt_init();
immediately before the call to theKernel(...) instead does the trick.
Is there any "generic" (not linux specific) place where such a call could/should be placed? It is not necessary for me, but I guess a more generic solution would be helpful here. And we should keep in mind that booting might fail at some place, so this call must not be placed at any point where U-Boot is still able to continue due to a broken image or something.
Best regards, Wolfgang
PS: I am sorry for not sending a patch - my tree is a bit of a mess right now, and I also did not really understand how git works, as you might have noticed from previous messages.