[git pull] Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

2009-01-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi Linus ! Here are mostly a bunch of fixups for the u64 change in the PS3 code which was pretty bad in that area. For bits out of arch/powerpc, we generally have either subsystem maintainer explicit ack or verbal ack via email or irc. Only davem didn't have a chance to reply yet so I left the dri

Device Tree setup for 8272-based board

2009-01-15 Thread Daniel Ng
Hi Scott, > Scott Wood freescale.com> writes: > > Yes, if u-boot is providing junk, then you'll probably want to hack up > > the wrapper to ignore it. Or just upgrade u-boot to one that works. So, I've gotten the latest u-boot installed and working. Here's my boot sequence- ## Booting kernel fro

Re: Device Tree setup for 8272-based board

2009-01-15 Thread Daniel Ng
Hi Scott, > Scott Wood freescale.com> writes: > > Yes, if u-boot is providing junk, then you'll probably want to hack up > > the wrapper to ignore it. Or just upgrade u-boot to one that works. So, I've gotten the latest u-boot installed and working. Here's my boot sequence- ## Booting kernel fro

Re: [PATCH 07/11] md: rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 in asynchronous way

2009-01-15 Thread Cheng Renquan
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: > Rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 function to work asynchronously. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dan Williams > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: >> Wha

MPC8313 NAND driver limitation

2009-01-15 Thread Sai Amruta
Hi, System details: Linux: 2.6.26-1 Processor: MPC8313 The current freescale NAND controller driver is using "command completion (CC)" interrupt from FCM block to know the completion read and write operations. After issuing NAND read/write operation and before FCM CC interrupt, access to other Lo

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:53:24PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > I do have mailboxes (two inbound, two outbound) which can generate > > interrupts, as well as doorbell registers (one inbound, one outbound). > > The doorbell register's bits are "wri

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:57:41PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > Some sort of Broadcom chipset, I think. Full dmesg and lspci output are > > appended. > > > > The PCI bridge does mention MSI, so maybe it does support it. Would > > using the DMA fr

Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: Add ppc_progress() wrapper

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 22:34 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Michael Ellerman writes: > > > There's quite a lot of code that does: > > > > if (ppc_md.progress) > > ppc_md.progress(...) > > > > So move that idiom into a wrapper. Having a wrapper also allows us > > to have a fallback to printk i

Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: Add ppc_progress() wrapper

2009-01-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> It certainly used to be the case on ppc32 (and may still be) that > ppc_md.progress was called very very early, in some cases before the > MMU was set up, so we don't want to call printk from it. Falling back > to udbg_printf would be more appropriate. > > The idea of ppc_md.progress was that

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > I do have mailboxes (two inbound, two outbound) which can generate > interrupts, as well as doorbell registers (one inbound, one outbound). > The doorbell register's bits are "write 1 to clear", and can only be > cleared by the opposite side. > Ok,

Re: [PATCH 0/5 + 2] kexec updates

2009-01-15 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:59:08AM -0600, Milton Miller wrote: > On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:24 AM, Simon Horman wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 02:42:38PM -0600, Milton Miller wrote: >>> Follwing this mail are 5 patches for kexec userspace and two for the >>> kernel. The first fixes an array overflo

Re: [PATCH 07/11] md: rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 in asynchronous way

2009-01-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: > What's the reasoning behind changing the logic here, i.e. removing > must_compute and such? I'd feel more comfortable seeing copy and > paste where possible with cleanups separated out i

Re: [PATCH] mmc: Add driver for Freescale eSDHC controllers

2009-01-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > > +config MMC_ESDHC > +   tristate "Freescale Enhanced SD Host Controller Interface support" > +   depends on FSL_SOC > +   help > +     This selects the Freescale Enhanced SD Host Controller Interface > +     as found in s

Re: [PATCH 07/11] md: rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 in asynchronous way

2009-01-15 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: > Rewrite handle_stripe_dirtying6 function to work asynchronously. > > Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov > Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok > --- > drivers/md/raid5.c | 113 > ++-- > 1 files changed, 30 i

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:22:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > I have another question for you Arnd. > > > > What did you use as the host and guest drivers when you ran virtio over > > PCI? Did you use two unmodified instances of virtio_net (one

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > I have another question for you Arnd. > > What did you use as the host and guest drivers when you ran virtio over > PCI? Did you use two unmodified instances of virtio_net (one on host, > one on guest) for networking, or did you write new virtio dri

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > Some sort of Broadcom chipset, I think. Full dmesg and lspci output are > appended. > > The PCI bridge does mention MSI, so maybe it does support it. Would > using the DMA from the host mean that the guest system couldn't use the > DMA controller at

[PATCH] serial: Add 16850 uart type support to OF uart driver

2009-01-15 Thread Matthias Fuchs
(Resend because former version does not apply cleanly anymore) This patch adds support for "ns16850" as supported value of the compatible node in flat device tree uart descriptions. This is needed for example when you have a XR16C2850 uart connected to a PPC405's external bus controller. Signed-

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:53:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > > > These are PCI boards, not PCIe. The host computers are all Pentium3-M > > systems. I tried enabling MSI on the Freescale boards in the driver, by > > calling pci_enable_msi() dur

lapb discipline

2009-01-15 Thread diba...@libero.it
Hi all, I need a LAPB line discipline. Is there anything in the 2.6 kernels? Anyone has anything even unstable or to complete? ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Re: [PATCH] cpm2: Round the baud-rate clock divider to the nearest integer.

2009-01-15 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Scott Wood wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2009 15:42:14 Kumar Gala wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: 2.6.29-rc1 is out and I haven't seen the patch being applied anywhere

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:53:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > > > These are PCI boards, not PCIe. The host computers are all Pentium3-M > > systems. I tried enabling MSI on the Freescale boards in the driver, by > > calling pci_enable_msi() dur

Re: [PATCH] cpm2: Round the baud-rate clock divider to the nearest integer.

2009-01-15 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009 15:42:14 Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > > > 2.6.29-rc1 is out and I haven't seen the patch being applied > > > anywhere. Is there any blocking issue ?

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > These are PCI boards, not PCIe. The host computers are all Pentium3-M > systems. I tried enabling MSI on the Freescale boards in the driver, by > calling pci_enable_msi() during probe(), and it failed. That doesn't really mean anything, just tha

Re: [PATCH] snd-aoa: handle older machines

2009-01-15 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:21:48 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > This patch changes snd-aoa to handle some older machines that are > currently handled by snd-powermac. snd-aoa has a number of advantages > though, notably it can autoload better and is generally a more modern > driver. > > By hardcodin

[PATCH] snd-aoa: handle master-amp if present

2009-01-15 Thread Johannes Berg
Some machines have a master amp GPIO that needs to be toggled to get sound output, in addition to speaker/headphone/line-out amps. This makes snd-aoa handle it, if present in the device tree, thus making snd-aoa be able to output sound on PowerMac3,6, which was previously handled by snd-powermac wh

[PATCH] snd-aoa: handle older machines

2009-01-15 Thread Johannes Berg
This patch changes snd-aoa to handle some older machines that are currently handled by snd-powermac. snd-aoa has a number of advantages though, notably it can autoload better and is generally a more modern driver. By hardcoding the accepted device-ids (last hunk of the patch) I'm trying to avoid r

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:58:33PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > > > The only problem with that is that you cannot route interrupts from the > > DMA controller over PCI with the PowerPC core running. Which makes it > > mostly useless for this case.

Re: Internal assembler error for instruction icbt

2009-01-15 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:05 AM, wael showair wrote: hi All, i have LTIB version 6.2.2 with which i have built linux kernel 2.6.19-rc5 for my board where its processor is MPC8555.i built the kernel Image successfuly without any problems But Now i want to upgrade the linux kernel to 2.6.27 but

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-15 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2009/1/15 Anatolij Gustschin > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > I just tried. I created a dtb from the file > > arch/powerpc/boot/dst/mpc8272ads.dts file. > > It is not rebboting, but handling (my "run" led is switching off). > > > > => tftp 200 mpc8272ads.dtb > > Using FCC1 ETHERNET device >

Internal assembler error for instruction icbt

2009-01-15 Thread wael showair
hi All, i have LTIB version 6.2.2 with which i have built linux kernel 2.6.19-rc5 for my board where its processor is MPC8555.i built the kernel Image successfuly without any problems But Now i want to upgrade the linux kernel to 2.6.27 but unfortunately i got the following error: **

Re: [PATCH] cpm2: Round the baud-rate clock divider to the nearest integer.

2009-01-15 Thread Laurent Pinchart
On Thursday 15 January 2009 15:42:14 Kumar Gala wrote: > On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > 2.6.29-rc1 is out and I haven't seen the patch being applied > > anywhere. Is there any blocking issue ? > > I wasn't sure if you and Scott had come to resolution on the rounding >

Re: [PATCH] cpm2: Round the baud-rate clock divider to the nearest integer.

2009-01-15 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: Hi Kumar, On Thursday 20 November 2008 17:00:54 Kumar Gala wrote: On Nov 20, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2008 16:32:21 Kumar Gala wrote: On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: Instead o

Re: [PATCH] mmc: Add driver for Freescale eSDHC controllers

2009-01-15 Thread Ben Dooks
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:56:05AM +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 07:37:00AM +0800, Liu Dave wrote: > > > This patch adds support for the Freescale Enhanced Secure Digital > > > Host Controller Interface as found in some Freescale PowerPC > > > microprocessors (e.g. MPC837x

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-15 Thread Anatolij Gustschin
Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > I just tried. I created a dtb from the file > arch/powerpc/boot/dst/mpc8272ads.dts file. > It is not rebboting, but handling (my "run" led is switching off). > > => tftp 200 mpc8272ads.dtb > Using FCC1 ETHERNET device > TFTP from server 10.0.0.1; our IP address is

Re: [PATCH] cpm2: Round the baud-rate clock divider to the nearest integer.

2009-01-15 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Kumar, On Thursday 20 November 2008 17:00:54 Kumar Gala wrote: > On Nov 20, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Thursday 20 November 2008 16:32:21 Kumar Gala wrote: > >> On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >>> Instead of rounding the divider down, improve the bau

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-15 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2009/1/15 Anatolij Gustschin > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > > I have a MPC8272ADS board, 64MB RAM, 8MB Flash. > > I compiled u-boot using the existing config file, and compiled my linux > > kernel successfully with the defconfig file too. > > > > I have updated u-boot, downloaded my kernel fil

Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver

2009-01-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 January 2009, Ira Snyder wrote: > The only problem with that is that you cannot route interrupts from the > DMA controller over PCI with the PowerPC core running. Which makes it > mostly useless for this case. If the host supports MSI, you can simply program the DMA controller to w

Re: [MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-15 Thread Anatolij Gustschin
Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > I have a MPC8272ADS board, 64MB RAM, 8MB Flash. > I compiled u-boot using the existing config file, and compiled my linux > kernel successfully with the defconfig file too. > > I have updated u-boot, downloaded my kernel file, and a ramdisk image > from the eldk dist

[MPC8272ADS]Cannot start my Linux Kernel

2009-01-15 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
Hi everybody ! This my first (but not least :) ) message on that mailing list. I hope I will find my solution. Here is my problem: I have a MPC8272ADS board, 64MB RAM, 8MB Flash. I compiled u-boot using the existing config file, and compiled my linux kernel successfully with the defconfig file to

Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: Add ppc_progress() wrapper

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Mackerras
Michael Ellerman writes: > There's quite a lot of code that does: > > if (ppc_md.progress) > ppc_md.progress(...) > > So move that idiom into a wrapper. Having a wrapper also allows us > to have a fallback to printk if no progress routine is specified. It certainly used to be the case on

Re: [PATCH] fsldma: print correct IRQ on mpc83xx

2009-01-15 Thread Li Yang
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > Timur Tabi wrote: >> >> Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> >>> The only minor issues we have is the cosmetic problem of the driver >>> printing NO_IRQ (E.G. this patch), and the driver calling >>> free_irq(NO_IRQ) (E.G. the other patch I sent today) in

Re: [PATCH 1/4 v2] hvc_console: remove tty->low_latency

2009-01-15 Thread Christian Borntraeger
> Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner > --- > drivers/char/hvc_console.c |2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > --- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c > +++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c > @@ -318,8 +318,6 @@ static int hvc_open(struct tty_struct *t > } /* else count == 0 */ > > tty-

Re: [PATCH 1/4 v2] hvc_console: remove tty->low_latency

2009-01-15 Thread Hendrik Brueckner
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:04:04AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > So the simplest is to never set it. > > I already applied your previous patch. Please send an incremental fix. Here is the incremental patch for your powerpc tree along with a summary as patch description. Regards, Hendri

[PATCH] POWERPC: MPC52xx: add function to return ext. clock frequency

2009-01-15 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
This patch adds the utility function mpc52xx_get_xtal_freq() to get the frequency of the external oscillator clock connected to the pin SYS_XTAL_IN. The MSCAN may us it as clock source. Unfortunately, this value is not available from the FDT blob, but it can be determined from the IPB frequency. S

Re: 2.6.28-rc9 panics with crashkernel=256M while booting

2009-01-15 Thread Chandru
On Friday 09 January 2009 16:37:24 Chandru wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2009 01:33:12 Dave Hansen wrote: > > Now I'm even more confused. Could you please send a fully changelogged > > patch that describes the problem, and how this fixes it? This just > > seems like an off-by-one error, which isn