[PATCH 0/5] V7/Cortex/omap34xx fixes for 2.6.33-rc1: DCC, kexec, atags

Magnus Damm magnus.damm at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 04:24:51 EST 2010


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * Magnus Damm <magnus.damm at gmail.com> [091227 21:54]:
>> >      arm: Fix cpu_proc_fin() for proc-v7.S and make kexec work
>
> Are you seeing the occasional crc errors when uncompressing the
> new kernel on your v7?

Nope, it's very stable. I boot over USB with kexec for all my ARM
kernel development and I have not seen any issues so far.

> I'm seeing those maybe 1 out of 10 times on omap3430 boards unless if
> I do an extra (and wrong) flush_cache_all after local_flush_tlb_all
> at the end of setup_mm_for_reboot.

My second kernel does not need any workaround, however...

> If you're not seeing the crc errors, do you have L2 cache on?

I'm not sure at this point, but I think L2 is disabled. Will try to turn it on.

> Also, what's the Cortex version on your v7? It's rev r2p3 on
> omap3430.

The data sheet of sh7377 says r2p3 as well.

Cheers,

/ magnus



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