Oops parsing empty RedBoot partition with 2.6.20-rc7

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Williams, Dan J <dan.j.williams at intel.com> [2007-02-02 10:22]:
> > With current git (2.6.20-rc7) I get the following oops when it's
> > trying to parse the RedBoot partition.  This is on an IOP13xx based
> > board (Intel iq81340mc).  I guess the problm happens because I don't
> > have any RedBoot partitions.  Note that 2.6.19 work fine.
> > 
> I am seeing this as well.  After a 'fis init' it starts working, but our
> customer reference boards normally ship without a partition table.  As
> you said this works fine on 2.6.19.  You may be able to do a 'git
> bisect' if iop13xx support was added before this regression...

It was caused by:

commit 0b47d654089c5ce3f2ea26a4485db9bcead1e515
Author: Yoshinori Sato <ysato at users.sourceforge.jp>
Date:   Fri Dec 1 10:01:50 2006 +0000

    [MTD] redboot partition combined fis / config problem

    Can't analyze FIS directory in CYGSEM_REDBOOT_FLASH_COMBINED_FIS_AND_CONFIG
    really.

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Martin Michlmayr
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