On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 06:57:03PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On 23/09/15 18:22, Jeremy Linton wrote: > >|FWIW, mainline booting with this patch on Juno r1 with ACPI enabled > >dies a |horrible death: > > > >Sorry about the delay, I didn't see this message. > > > ><trimmed> > > > >|How did you get this to work? Firmware release? > > > >Yes, it's a firmware problem with the ACPI tables. It is likely you > >need _DSD changes for the SMSC. If your trying to run juno with ACPI > >there are a few other ACPI table changes you will need beyond what > >was in the last linaro release. I wanted to just provide a direct > >link to the correct firmware in this response, but it seems the > >required version is sort of up in the air at the moment. Be assured I > >will really push on this next week, and will provide a follow up > >here. > > > >Originally, the lack of DSD wasn't a problem, but as this patch > >evolved the fact that it consolidates a number of configuration code > >paths balancing that got tricky, and ACPI machines with "bad" tables > >were the victims (rather than breaking something I can't control). > > Even now absence of _DSD *should* continue to be just fine. We can > bailout without initializing the device. Pulling the entire kernel down > just because of an incomplete device entry make no sense IMO.
I agree. IMO, that's a regression since a working kernel on Juno (albeit without networking) now dies unless you also upgrade the firmware. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
