[PATCH respin 0/7] MPC8568E-MDS related patches

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Oct 8 23:46:38 EST 2007


On Oct 8, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:09:28PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Kumar,
>>>
>>> This is respin of MPC8568E-MDS patches, on top of master branch
>>> as of today.
>>>
>>> If there are no objections against SPI patch, please Ack it, thus
>>> David could pick it up.
>>
>> I've applied patches 1-5 however I'm not able to get UCC enet  
>> working on my
>> board.
>
> I wonder how you managed to boot it w/o sixth (PCI) patch in this  
> patch set,
> for me board hanged w/o it.
>
>> Is there something special that has to be done?  (I've got the card
>> standalone, no MDS backplane).
>
> Nothing special, from what I can remember. Though, double checking  
> switches
> on the board might help.
>
> Also, .config and bootlog would help.
>
>> I'm using the 1.3.0-rc2 u-boot w/o any modifications.
>
> 1.2.0-g60174746 here.
>
>> Also, I tried a PCIe e1000 card w/the .dts that's in my tree and  
>> that works
>> w/o any issue.
>
> Strange enough. I'd say it's impossible with your current tree.  
> Maybe you've
> used some stale dtb? Because dts is seriously broken as now, and I  
> can't
> believe that it worked for you. ;-)

Ignore me. Using the updated dtb makes things work.  I need to double  
check PCIe but UCC geth appears to function now.

- k



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