[PATCH v2 RFC] pasemi: Fix boot failure on 4.7-rc1
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Thu Jun 30 16:59:13 AEST 2016
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Darren Stevens <darren at stevens-zone.net> wrote:
>
> Commit:d6a9996e84ac4beb7713e9485f4563e100a9b03e (powerpc/mm:
> vmalloc abstraction in preparation for radix) turned kernel memory
> and IO addresses from #defined constants to variables initialised
> at runtime.
>
> On PA6T systems the setup_arch machine call initialises the onboard
> PCI-e root-ports, and uses pci_io_base to do this, which is now before
> its value has been set resulting in a panic right after 'booting
> linux via __start()'
I don't see the panic here on a Chitra, at least not on recent -next.
What config are you building with when you see this?
Please cc me on PA Semi related patches if you want my attention. I
still have hardware, in fact I boot every -next release on it through
automation.
-Olof
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