JFFS2 Kernel Panic w/Xscale (PXA255) & 2.6.10

Craig A. Vanderborgh craigv at voxware.com
Fri Feb 25 17:06:48 EST 2005


Nicolas Pitre wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Craig A. Vanderborgh wrote:
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>>Our platform is a PXA-255 based SBC.  It is running kernel 2.6.10
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>*extremely*
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>>well, with one exception - when accessing a VIRGIN jffs2 filesystem,
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>we get a
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>>kernel panic.  We cannot get past this unless we reload our 2.4.27
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>kernel and
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>>let it do the initial JFFS2 setup stuff.  After reloading kernel
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>2.6.10,
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>>everything is then okay.  Just the uninitialized JFFS2 is a problem.
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>Are you using L18 Intel flash? If so you should consider applying the 
>latest fixes from MTD CVS.
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>Nicolas
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Wow, sorry I forgot to mention this - we're using Intel K3 Strataflash - 
it's
2 32 MB K3 chips interleaved into one bank.

Regards,
craig vanderborgh
voxware incorporated




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