OMAP baseline test results for v3.8-rc4

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Lübbe <jlu at pengutronix.de> writes:
> 
>  Jan> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 02:24 +0000, Paul Walmsley wrote:
>  >> Regarding the AM33xx test failures with appended DTBs, it would be very 
>  >> helpful if especially the TI people could try reproducing the problem.
>  >> Otherwise it's going to cause problems with merging any new AM33xx 
>  >> patches, since I won't be able to test them without additional work.  
>  >> Plus, this is something that used to work up until d01e4afd, so something 
>  >> isn't right.
> 
>  Jan> Just a guess, but there can be problems when the appended DTB
>  Jan> crosses an 1MB boundary. See this mail for details and a patch:
>  Jan> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg216898.html
> 
> True, but that doesn't seem to be the case here:
> ls -la arch/arm/boot/uImage
> -rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 3945127 Jan 22 09:26 arch/arm/boot/uImage
> 
> E.G. far from the 1MB boundary.

Don't rely on that.  Remember, if the compressed image occupies the same
location as the decompressed kernel, the decompressor will copy the data
to a different location in RAM first - I think at RAM offset + 32K +
decompressed kernel size.

So yes, please try the patch in the link above.