[PATCH v2 RFC] pasemi: Fix boot failure on 4.7-rc1

[Aneesh Kumar K.V]

Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> writes:

> 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.
>

You can find more details in the below thread.

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8B4C4AB7-5C17-4992-935A-361153472793@xenosoft.de


-aneesh