smsc911x.c driver and SMP

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Aug 31 04:33:02 EDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 01:07 +0100, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> On 10/6/2009 3:12 PM, Antti P Miettinen wrote:
> > Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> writes:
> >> Fixed it with this new commit (I'm not posting the patch here as it's
> >> not meant for review on this list):
> >>
> >> http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3cc8ee538f6727d1f6773fff6d8e31bc5522bfee
> >
> > Just a piece of information: with vanilla 2.6.31 boot from NFS root on
> > my PB11MPCore hangs, with this patch applied, boot succeeds.
> 
> Now I'm setting up similar dev environment by chance; Cortex-A9 MPcore,
> slightly old kernel (say .31 or .32), and with smsc911x.c Ethernet
> driver required [1].
> 
> I'm auditing the required patches right now, and very interested in
> above patch, but it seems that blob got lost these days :-(
> 
> Do you still have the patch, and would you mind sharing it with me?

It is in mainline already:

http://git.kernel.org/linus/492c5d943d6a04b124ba3a719dc746dc36b14cfb

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Catalin




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