[PATCH v3 1/3] ARM: BCM5301X: initial support for the BCM5301X/BCM470X SoCs with ARM CPU

[Will Deacon]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 08:49:16PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 26 July 2013, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > > At least, we need a pretty good explanation of what exactly is causing
> > > > these spurious aborts before we start ignoring them unconditionally like
> > > > this. You're effectively masking an extremely serious error indicator with
> > > > this change.
> > > 
> > > This fault occurs once every boot sometime early in the boot process,
> > > but the actual time this happens varies randomly.
> > 
> > Well that's interesting in itself. It sounds like we don't know *for sure*
> > whether the abort is triggered by Linux. Since the abort is imprecise, the
> > timing will vary.
> 
> It might be possible to find out the culprit if you just enter an endless loop
> in the early kernel boot code. If you enter the loop before Linux does something
> wrong, it won't crash, otherwise it will. After that, you could bisect the
> boot process by moving the busy loop around.
> 
> If it even crashes at the point where Linux gets entered, it's a bug in the
> boot loader.

Can you give Arnd's suggestion a go please Hauke?

Thanks,

Will