Instable kernel (2.6.29 or 2.6.31) on MPC8548 with 2 GByte RAM

2009-10-15 Thread willy jacobs
On our MPC8548 (latest die revision) based boards with 2 GByte DDR2 RAM we see an stable kernel when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set In this case only the first 768 MB will be used (as reported by /proc/cpuinfo). Tested with/without the RT-patches for 2.6.29.6(-rt23) and 2.6.31.2(-rt13) kernels. Wi

Gianfar ethernet MPC85xx driver not seen anymore when moving to 2.6.29 kernel

2009-02-13 Thread willy jacobs
When I moved (config file and device tree) from 2.6.28 (and earlier kernel releases) to 2.6.29-rc2 for some reason the Gianfar driver is correctly compiled in, but not probed anymore during kernel booting. I looked into the Changelogs, but did'nt see any change regarding this. Do I need to cha