Vexpress TC2 no longer booting on v4.12-rc1

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Mon Jun 5 02:27:05 PDT 2017


On 05/06/17 10:18, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> 
> 
> 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].

Ah, brilliant. Thanks Sudeep.

	M.
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