ar71xx: fix nondeterministic hangs during bootconsole/console handover

ar71xx: fix nondeterministic hangs during bootconsole/console handover

Reconfiguring the UART when the FIFO is not empty may cause the boot to
hang. This hang is extremely suspectible to timing differences; recompiling
the kernel with the same configuration, but different UTS_VERSION
timestamps can yield images that hang more or less often. Sometimes images
are produced that hang reproducibly.

This patch should also make it into one of the next linux-stable releases,
but it's better to get this fixed as soon as possible.

Fixes #21773, #21857.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Backport of r49156

SVN-Revision: 49202