Re: ppc/sata-fsl: orphan config value: CONFIG_MPC8315_DS

2012-05-25 Thread Anthony Foiani
Li Yang-R58472 writes: > Thanks for bringing [CONFIG_MPC8315_DS] up again. Looks like we do > have a problem here. My impression is that the simplest fix is Adrian's patch, which simply keys off CONFIG_MPC831x_RDB. It's not very satisfying, but I'll take "working" vs. "rare lockups at boot".

Re: [git pull] signals, the first series

2012-05-25 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 03:14:05PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > OK, it seem that most of this has been in Andrew's tree for a while, > sorry about that. Grr... *Another* missing prereq for task_work_add() series, this time on ppc64. Could somebody familiar with that beast take a look at this

Re: [PATCH] gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len

2012-05-25 Thread Paul Gortmaker
On 12-05-25 03:51 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 11:58 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: >> But you really shouldn't need the hardware to validate this kind of >> patch anyways -- aside from your code flow change in the irq routine of >> gianfar_ptp, you should have been simply able to c

Re: [PATCH] gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len

2012-05-25 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 11:58 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > But you really shouldn't need the hardware to validate this kind of > patch anyways -- aside from your code flow change in the irq routine of > gianfar_ptp, you should have been simply able to check for object file > equivalence before and

Re: Oops with Radeon/Uninorth on Maple

2012-05-25 Thread Alex Deucher
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > Hello, colleagues, > > I'm trying to enable an AGP slot (again) on my Maple board (dual PPC970FX > board, with CPC925 (U3H) north bridge). > >  For now I'm stuck with a problem: I use radeon card, drm-radeon driver with > KMS. > > I

Re: [PATCH] gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len

2012-05-25 Thread Paul Gortmaker
[Re: [PATCH] gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len] On 24/05/2012 (Thu 09:16) Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 17:04 +0200, Jan Ceuleers wrote: > > On 05/22/2012 09:18 PM, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Jiajun Wu > > > Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:00:48 +0800 > > > > > >> FCB(

Re: pread() and pwrite() system calls

2012-05-25 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:29:06PM +0100, David Laight wrote: > We have a system with linux 2.6.32 and the somewhat archaic > uClibc 0.9.27 (but I'm not sure the current version is > any better, and I think there are binary compatibility > if we update). > > I've just discovered that pread() is 'i

pread() and pwrite() system calls

2012-05-25 Thread David Laight
We have a system with linux 2.6.32 and the somewhat archaic uClibc 0.9.27 (but I'm not sure the current version is any better, and I think there are binary compatibility if we update). I've just discovered that pread() is 'implemented' by using 3 lseek() system calls and read(). (the same is true

Re: module loading issue/flaw in busy memory situation?

2012-05-25 Thread Steffen Rumler
Hi, The basic question is, has the GPR r11 a dedicated function (to point to the previous stack frame) or is it still a volatile GPR, according to EABI definition ? In the case of a dedicated function was assigned, the trampoline code generation in arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c must be