-next fails to boot as of today on S3C6410

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Wed Nov 23 12:54:47 EST 2011


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:52:10AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 08:55 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > 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.

I'm on Cragganmore 6410 which just calls a bunch of arch-generic stuff
(though now I look I do see a comment saying that we're relying on some
setup from the bootloader which I get may have been trashed...).



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