Can anyone help test Cortex A9 patches?

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Thu Nov 19 04:49:40 EST 2009


Russell,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-arm-kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-
> arm-kernel-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Russell King -
> ARM Linux
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:33 PM
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> Subject: Can anyone help test Cortex A9 patches?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need help testing Cortex A9 patches.  What I need is someone with
> a
> fairly fully fledged Cortex A9 platform with the ability to build
> and
> test recent kernels - and therefore be able to test my patches
> without
> modification.
> 
> Specifically, I'm looking for someone who can reproduce data
> corruption
> on DMA transfers from devices caused by Cortex A9's speculative
> prefetching
> 
> Unfortunately, I have no way to reproduce this problem here (I have
> no
> Cortex A9 hardware), and as such I can't test the fixes.

I can test your patches on A9 hardware (OMAP4) over this weekend. Couple of constraints with codebase I have
1. It's still on 2.6.31. Can you patches be applied on 2.6.31 too ?
2. Do you have the testcase for the above mentioned scenario or do I need to make one?

Regards,
Santosh



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