Oops in IDE probing on ppc_440 when PCI is enabled in strapping

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Sep 14 22:51:29 EST 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:36:15PM +0200, Ludo Van Put wrote:
>Hi,
>
>we're working with a PPC440GX on a board that has a.o. a compact flash slot.
>We had the PCI subsystem of the ppc disabled in strapping for quite a while,
>until we wanted to start using it.
>However, when we enabled PCI in the strapping and in the (patched 2.6.10)

2.6.10?  Really?  If that is truly the case, you probably aren't going to get
a whole lot of help from the list, since that kernel is pretty ancient.

>kernel configuration, we triggered an oops when probing for IDE devices (to
>read out the first 512 bytes of the CF). I can see that the ioremap64 call
>in the driver code for our CF returns a different address (compared to PCI
>disabled in strapping), but using this address later on for accessing the CF
>goes wrong.

Posting the oops output would perhaps help.  Or maybe not.

josh


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