PATCH Add support for the Iomega IX2-200 Device Tree

[Jason Cooper]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 07:55:42AM -0400, Josh Coombs wrote:
> >> Sorry i meant board-dt in the previous message and the name just
> >> getting used to the mail program on os x aswel. I have run through the
> >> checkpatch.pl script and it tells me there are no errors but i just
> >> found out a few minutes ago theres a fix for the 2 sata ports not
> >> working (on all kirkwood devices as far as i know) so i am going to
> >> test that now as it envolves modifying a line in the dts file.
> >
> > Ok.  Please let everyone know in the comment portion of the patch (after
> > the --- line) that your patch depends on this fix.  I haven't seen the
> > patch you're referring to yet.  I'll keep my eye out for it.
> 
> What he's referring to is needing to up the coherent_pool size to get
> a Kirkwood device with two SATA ports to init completely.  I brought
> the topic up on arm-kernel under the subject 'Potential Regression in
> 3.6-rc1 - Kirkwood SATA' and Aaro Koskinen suggested the root cause
> and potential fix of adding coherent_pool=1M to the bootargs.  I
> didn't think to cc you in the discussion, sorry about that.  So there
> isn't a pending patch yet, just a suggestion of altered bootargs.

Yes, I saw that discussion.  Setting coherent_pool=1M was a way of
diagnosing the problem.  It allowed the system to boot, which tells us
where the problem lies.  But it did not fix the problem in the code.
*That's* the patch I was referring to.  Which I haven't seen, yet. ;-)

thx,

Jason.