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Subject: Re: Simple question about powerpc kernel source.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
To: HongWoo Lee
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Date: Mon Jul 20 2009 19:02:38 GMT+0900
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 18:00 +0900, HongWoo Lee wrote:
Hi all,
I have somethin
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 09:15 +0900, HongWoo Lee wrote:
> First, I aleady understood about @highest, @higher, @h and @l.
> For now, what I want to know is about "##" in the below code.
>
> #define LOADADDR(rn,name) \
> lis rn,nam...@highest; \
> ori rn,rn,nam...@high
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:38 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:00:41PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:10 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe I don't understand your description correctly. The TLB contains
> > > PMDs, but you say the HW
U-Boot maps PCI IO at 0xe030, while current dts files specify
0xe200. This leads to the following oops with CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO=y.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
Machine check in kernel mode.
Caused by (from SRR1=41000): Transfer error ack signal
Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
MPC837
Dear vijay sharma,
In message you
wrote:
>
> I have been woking on upgrading an embedded system based on MPC8241 from
> 2.4.17 linux to 2.6.30 kernel.
Wow, that's a big leap...
You should also consider to update to the latest version of U-Boot;
the time when it was still called PPCBoot is lon
(adding cc:linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org)
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Mark Ware wrote:
> Changes to the fs_enet driver (aa73832c5a80d6c52c69b18af858d88fa595dd3c)
> cause kernel crashes when using the mdio-ofgpio driver.
>
> The following patch is a fairly naive attempt to replicate similar changes
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
> will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
> freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
>
> Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 05:12:11PM +0530, Mohd Arif wrote:
>Dear All,
>Happy to be a part of this mailing list!
>The issue is that i want to give support of ethtool in ethernet
>driver.
You didn't say whether this is related to PowerPC or not.
>Where do i need to make changes in t
This is another alloc_bootmem() -> kzalloc() change, this time to
fix the non-fatal badness caused when booting with a cpm2_uart console.
Signed-Off-By: Mark Ware
---
drivers/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_cpm2.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/seria
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 07:59:21PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:05 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> > Unless anybody has other preferences, just send it straight to Linus in
> > the next merge window -- if any conflicts did come up anyway they would
> > be trivial
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:00:41PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:10 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I don't understand your description correctly. The TLB contains
> > PMDs, but you say the HW still logically performs another translation
> > step using ent
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 18:00 +0900, HongWoo Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have something to ask for the ppc kernel source.
>
> #define LOADADDR(rn,name) \
> lis rn,nam...@highest; \
> ori rn,rn,nam...@higher;\
> rldicr rn,rn,32,31;\
> orisrn
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:10 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Maybe I don't understand your description correctly. The TLB contains
> PMDs, but you say the HW still logically performs another translation
> step using entries in the PMD pages? If I understand that correctly,
> then generic mm does not
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:05 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Unless anybody has other preferences, just send it straight to Linus in
> the next merge window -- if any conflicts did come up anyway they would
> be trivial. You could just check against linux-next before doing so, and
> should see if it
Hi all,
I have something to ask for the ppc kernel source.
#define LOADADDR(rn,name) \
lis rn,nam...@highest; \
ori rn,rn,nam...@higher;\
rldicr rn,rn,32,31;\
orisrn,rn,nam...@h; \
ori rn,rn,nam...@l
Is ## used for concatena
Rupesh Kumar wrote:
Hi
Thanks for reply.
After erasing one of the flash partition, i mounted it as yaffs2 and
manually created rootfs there.
Though it (careting RFS in NAND partiton) marked blocks bad, I am able to
boot with this yaffs2 filesystem.
When image is created with mkyffs2image binar
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:54:15AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Interesting arrangement. So are these last level ptes modifieable
> > from userspace or something? If not, I wonder if you could manage
> > them as another level of po
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:11:13PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > I would like to merge the new support that depends on this in 2.6.32,
> > > so unless there's major objections, I'd like this to go in early during
> > > the merge w
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:11:13 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > I would like to merge the new support that depends on this in 2.6.32,
> > > so unless there's major objections, I'd like this to go in early during
> > > the merge window
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:56 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > I would like to merge the new support that depends on this in 2.6.32,
> > so unless there's major objections, I'd like this to go in early during
> > the merge window. We can sort out separately how to carry the patch
> > around in -next unt
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