Vexpress TC2 no longer booting on v4.12-rc1

[Sudeep Holla]

On 02/06/17 23:16, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> Good afternoon Russell and friends,
> 
> I noticed that my vexpress-TC2 platform stopped booting when moving to
> kernel v4.12-rc1 (same with -rc2 and 3).  The last time things worked
> properly was on v4.11.  I did a bisect between v4.11 and v4.12-rc1 and
> ended up on [1], hence this email.
> 
> Since CONFIG_ARM_VIRT_EXT is selected by  default I removed the
> "#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_VIRT_EXT" section in the last hunk of the patch and
> the system sprung up to life again.
> 
> Compiler: arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)
> 5.4.0 20160609
> Kernel command line: console=ttyAMA0,38400 loglevel=8 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
> U-boot:
>  ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 82000000
>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x82000000
>    Loading Ramdisk to 9fcea000, end 9feea6d1 ... OK
>    Loading Device Tree to 9fce2000, end 9fce9ad8 ... OK
> 
> I'm not sure what else you need at this time - simply get back to me
> with what I'm missing and I'll be happy to provided.  I'm also
> offering to test patches.
> 

Fixed[1] and must be queued in rmk's tree[2].

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg581877.html
[2] http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8675