[U-Boot] Kirkwood: no console messages from init_sequence?

[Reinhard Meyer]

Dear Eric Cooper,
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 08:40:31PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
>> I no longer see any of the early console messages that should result
>> from display_banner, print_cpuinfo, etc.  The first thing I see is the
>> NAND information:
>> [...]
>
> But if I load the same u-boot image into memory and execute it with
> "go", I see the entire banner, DRAM message, etc.  So the problem only
> occurs when it is booting from NAND flash.

Looks to me like the console does not get initialized early or that the
console driver does not work before relocation. Check for possible static
data usage in the driver.

Best Regards
Reinhard