USB support on mpc5200 broken

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Sep 25 11:50:47 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 21:09 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > USB is not working my hardware, so I booted my Efika and it's not
> > working there either.  This is with linus' current git.
> >
> > Can anyone verify this? Or know what happened to USB?
> > USB is loading but it is not finding anything plugged in.
> > lsusb doesn't show anything.
> >
> > Last time I noticed it was working was about ten days ago. I don't use
> > it everyday.
> 
> Efika is broken because of this:
> 
> ohci-ppc-of.c...
> 	is_bigendian =
> 		of_device_is_compatible(dn, "ohci-bigendian") ||
> 		of_device_is_compatible(dn, "ohci-be");
> 
> Efika doesn't have either of those in it's compatible string.
> 
> This doesn't look to me like a very reliable way to determine bigendian.

You mean it's not reliable to expect people device-trees not to
suck ? :-)

Ben.





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