[PATCH 1/4] arm: mvebu: limit OpenBlocks AX3-4 to 1 GB of RAM

[Andrew Lunn]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:53:12PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Gregory CLEMENT,
> 
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:36:58 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> 
> > Until now I didn't notice any problem on this board with the 3GB enable.
> > 
> > I made more tests since I received this email, I booted (cold and hot boot)
> > the board dozens of times, and indeed every 5 or 10 reboot the kernel hanged
> > during boot at line:
> > "UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)"
> 
> I think it hangs at the same place here.
> 
> > After applying your patch, I didn't notice any hang after 20 boots. Do you
> > have a test pattern which make the kernel to hang each time to be sure that
> > it is the root of the problem?
> 
> No, I don't have a specific pattern. It just hangs from time to time.
> Maybe 1 boot out of 5 or something like that. And it just hangs like it
> did for you.

Hi Thomas, Gregory

I've been testing my board some more, using the PlatHome kernel
installed on the device as i received it. I've rebooted the device 20
times and not had a single problem.

I will now swap to a mainline kernel, 3.8-rc2 plus UART patch.

  Andrew