-next fails to boot as of today on S3C6410

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Thu Nov 24 13:37:51 EST 2011


On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:22:35PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> > Calling s3c_init_cpu(() elsewhere i.e. outside of the s3c64xx_init_io() 
> > call path, but after the later has been called, would be best.  Maybe 
> > from mdesc->init_early() ?
> 
> It looks like that'll need more substantial refactoring than I have the
> time to do right now, currently the CPU ID is immediately used to decide
> how to carry on with low level setup.

Where, and from what call path?

> The other option that occurs to
> me is to move the check so we can just use the physical address, is that
> crazy?

Yes, it is.  ;-)  Please don't do that.


Nicolas



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