From: "Kyungmin Park" After kernel 2.6.21, the qemu of mips with nfsroot is not working. There are too much WATCHDOG timeout. I try to find what makes it not working and I found it. After Ingo Monlar's patch "[PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default" [1], it's not working. To solve this, we also have to register the IRQ disable field in MIPS, as x86 does. 1. http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0701.3/1892.html Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/mips/kernel/i8259.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN arch/mips/kernel/i8259.c~mips-qemu-network-work-again arch/mips/kernel/i8259.c --- a/arch/mips/kernel/i8259.c~mips-qemu-network-work-again +++ a/arch/mips/kernel/i8259.c @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ void mask_and_ack_8259A(unsigned int); static struct irq_chip i8259A_chip = { .name = "XT-PIC", .mask = disable_8259A_irq, + .disable = disable_8259A_irq, .unmask = enable_8259A_irq, .mask_ack = mask_and_ack_8259A, #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMTC_IRQAFF _