-next fails to boot as of today on S3C6410
Mark Brown
broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Thu Nov 24 13:02:28 EST 2011
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:59:38PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> No. The s3c64xx code is wrong. It relies on a freshly installed
> mapping that has not been flushed to RAM yet. So when it works for you,
> That's due to pure luck, most probably because the page table is not
> cached when the mapping is created and the cache is not allocated on
> write.
Ah, right - I was assuming that the existing code was OK (given that
it's been in use for years). What should it be doing to trigger the
flush?
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