Hello, On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:55:01 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > I.e, isn't the firmware fix papering over a bug that should be fixed in > > Linux mvpp2 driver anyway ? > > Absolutely. Leaving this unpatched in the kernel, with a 100% chance of > memory corruption is just mad. > > I'm pretty sure there should be a way to sanely reset the interface > before it starts repainting the memory. I agree here. Do you still have an image of that old firmware version, so that we can try to reproduce, and see if we can come up with a way to reset the BM on boot up that would avoid this issue ? Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
