Hello Robert, Andreas,

On 09-12-14 22:45, Robert Nelson wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Jeroen Hofstee <jer...@myspectrum.nl> wrote:
Hi,

A while ago [1], a RFC was posted to disable workaround for
besides others, errata 430973. It is a bit unclear to me which
revision actually need this workaround, but as suggested in
[2] also enabling this workaround in Linux seem to make some
weird problems go away in linux (signal 4, bad instruction,
11 segfaults etc).

As said, I am a bit in doubt why this works. The board in question
is a tam3517 derived one:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor    : ARMv7 Processor rev 7 (v7l)
BogoMIPS    : 397.57
Features    : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls
CPU implementer    : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant    : 0x1
CPU part    : 0xc08
CPU revision    : 7

Which makes this a r1p7 I assume, and hence the workaround
of linux, CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_430973, "This option enables the
workaround for the 430973 Cortex-A8 (r1p0..r1p2) erratum",
should not be needed it seems.
Digging thru my old beagle notes 430973 is also needed for "r1p3"
(dm3730/bb-xm), so that config option was never updated since the
errata was first discovered in r1p2 devices..

Fixed in r2p1 sounds about right, as i know for sure it works fine in
'r3p2' (am335x/bbb)

Thanks for the clarification. I sent a patch to the linux folks
to update the help text.

Regards,
Jeroen



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