-next fails to boot as of today on S3C6410

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 12:52:10 EST 2011


On 11/23/2011 08:55 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 02:33:22PM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 01:50:34PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> It looks like there's a second bug breaking the boot in there - testing
>>> your commit the board boots but if I test the tip of Russell's for-next
>>> then that breaks again.  I'm just starting another bisect and
>>> considering sending a patch to add a git finger-point alias.
> 
>> Thanks for your patience Mark!  Please let me know if there's anything I 
>> can do to help.
> 
> My bisect turned up a second candidate - Nicholas' commit 549158d (ARM:
> move iotable mappings within the vmalloc region).  I reverted that and
> subsequent commits depending on it and my system now appears to boot
> fine with -next (with OF turned on to get the ops for the VIC).  This
> code is all a bit deep for me so I've no real idea what might be wrong.

The first suspect should be overlapping static mappings in the iotable.
This was allowed before and now is not. Looking at some of the 6410
platforms, I don't see any though. But you didn't mention which platform
you are on. There is a 1KB mapping which is a bit unusual.

Rob



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