Machine check in 4xx ethernet driver

[Felix Radensky]

Josh Boyer-4 wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:53:25AM -0700, Felix Radensky wrote:
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>>
>>Josh Boyer-4 wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:47:02AM -0700, Felix Radensky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I'm getting machine check exception when trying to dump
>>>>emac registers on 405EX Kilauea board. The kernel is 2.6.29-rc7
>>>>The problem seems not new, I can reproduce it on 2.6.25 Denx kernel
>>> 
>>> I've not looked at what that code path does, but the EMAC regs are
>>> in DCR space, not MMIO.  Using memcpy_fromio there seems odd.
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>>At least on 405EX MAL registers are in DCR space, but EMAC and RGMII
>>ones are in MMIO space.
> 
> Ah, quite right.  No coffee yet this morning.
> 
> You'll need to look at the code path ethtool is forcing.  Perhaps it's
> doing
> something stupid.
> 
> 

Bad quoting in previous message, sorry.

The problem goes away if I replace memcpy_fromio() by memcpy().,
but register values seem wrong. Why would memcpy() work when
memcpy_fromio()  doesn't ?


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