For reference, this is the output on the console as Microblaze Linux (as bundled with the Xillybus mini-distro) boots up, when everything is OK:
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 3.1.0-rc4-xillybus+ (eli@ocho.localdomain) (gcc version 4.1.2) #1 Fri Sep 16 10:50:20 IDT 2011 setup_cpuinfo: initialising setup_cpuinfo: Using full CPU PVR support cache: wt_msr_noirq setup_memory: max_mapnr: 0x8000 setup_memory: min_low_pfn: 0xc0000 setup_memory: max_low_pfn: 0xc8000 On node 0 totalpages: 32768 free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c073133c, node_mem_map c0802000 Normal zone: 256 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 0 pages reserved Normal zone: 32512 pages, LIFO batch:7 pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768 pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32512 Kernel command line: console=ttyUL0 root=/dev/xsa2 PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) allocated 524288 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups Memory: 121060k/131072k available SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 NR_IRQS:32 xlnx,xps-intc-1.00.a #0 at 0xc8000000, num_irq=9, edge=0xc1 xlnx,xps-timer-1.00.a #0 at 0xc8002000, irq=8 Heartbeat GPIO at 0xc8004000 microblaze_timer_set_mode: shutdown microblaze_timer_set_mode: periodic Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 37.06 BogoMIPS (lpj=185344) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Initializing cgroup subsys memory Initializing cgroup subsys devices Initializing cgroup subsys freezer devtmpfs: initialized NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: max bus depth: 0 pci_try_num: 1 bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 XGpio: /axi@0/gpio@40020000: registered XGpio: /axi@0/gpio@40000000: registered vgaarb: loaded Switching to clocksource microblaze_clocksource FS-Cache: Loaded microblaze_timer_set_mode: oneshot Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) TCP reno registered UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) NET: Registered protocol family 1 RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. RPC: Registered udp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32 Skipping unavailable RESET gpio -2 (reset) GPIO pin is already allocated audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) type=2000 audit(0.390:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering... Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de). JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. ROMFS MTD (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc. fuse init (API version 7.17) msgmni has been set to 236 alg: No test for cipher_null (cipher_null-generic) alg: No test for ecb(cipher_null) (ecb-cipher_null) alg: No test for digest_null (digest_null-generic) alg: No test for compress_null (compress_null-generic) alg: No test for fcrypt (fcrypt-generic) alg: No test for stdrng (krng) Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled 40600000.serial: ttyUL0 at MMIO 0x40600000 (irq = 7) is a uartlite console [ttyUL0] enabled xillybus: Created 5 device files. brd: module loaded loop: module loaded xsysace 41800000.sysace: Xilinx SystemACE revision 1.0.12 xsysace 41800000.sysace: capacity: 7813120 sectors xsa: xsa1 xsa2 xsa3 Xilinx SystemACE device driver, major=254 nbd: registered device at major 43 SSFDC read-only Flash Translation layer Generic platform RAM MTD, (c) 2004 Simtec Electronics xilinx_spi 40a00000.spi: at 0x40A00000 mapped to 0xc8580000, irq=1 xilinx_emaclite 40e00000.ethernet: Device Tree Probing Xilinx Emaclite MDIO: probed xilinx_emaclite 40e00000.ethernet: MAC address is now 00:0a:35:d4:06:00 xilinx_emaclite 40e00000.ethernet: Xilinx EmacLite at 0x40E00000 mapped to 0xC85A0000, irq=6 PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 PPP Deflate Compression module registered PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP MPPE Compression module registered NET: Registered protocol family 24 SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256). CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California. SLIP linefill/keepalive option. console [netcon0] enabled netconsole: network logging started device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.21.0-ioctl (2011-07-06) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver TCP cubic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 10 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver NET: Registered protocol family 17 NET: Registered protocol family 15 Registering the dns_resolver key type registered taskstats vetVFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 254:2. devtmpfs: mounted Freeing unused kernel memory: 167k freed ****************************************************************************** * Xillybus Microblaze Linux | For tips on getting around with this distro * * mini-distro v1.0 | and how to design peripherals for Linux easily,* * (C) Xillybus Ltd. 2011 | see https://www.xillybus.com/microblaze * ****************************************************************************** / #