[GIT PULL V5 0/7] ARM: kirkwood/dove/mvebu changes for v3.7

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Mon Sep 24 01:37:44 EDT 2012


Hi,

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
> Hi Arnd, Olof, Jason.
>
> I tested arm-soc/late/kirkwood on an orion5x board. There is an
> unrelated problem, which i should of really seen earlier....
>
> ERROR: 256 KiB atomic DMA coherent pool is too small!
> Please increase it with coherent_pool= kernel parameter!
>
> We had the same problem with kirkwood. I will submit a patch against
> 3.6-rc7. Is there still time for that? Otherwise it would be good to
> have in 3.7 and cc: stable so 3.6.1 gets the fix.

There's still some time, Linus just tagged -rc7 so we will have
somewhere between a few days and maybe a week until final 3.6.

> When i increase the coherent pool size on the command line, it boots
> O.K. I don't have any PCI devices on this board, but the two root
> controllers are listed by lspci.

Ok, great. It'd of course be good to see if something on the bus shows
up too, if you can.


-Olof



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