85xx software reset problems from paulus.git

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Nov 17 08:46:26 EST 2007


On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:28 PM, robert lazarski wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2007 3:44 PM, robert lazarski <robertlazarski at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Nov 16, 2007 10:27 AM, Clemens Koller  
>> <clemens.koller at anagramm.de> wrote:
>>> The SRESET# (pin AF20) is the soft reset input, causes
>>> an mcp assertion to the core.... (RTFM)
>>>
>>
>> That's what we are doing. The 85xx docs say "Soft reset. Causes a
>> machine check interrupt to the e500 core. Note that if the e500 core
>> is not configured to process machine check interrupts, the assertion
>> of SRESET causes a core checkstop. SRESET need not be asserted during
>> a hard reset."
>>
>
> Sorry for replying to myself, but thought I'd mention SRESET works
> fine on 85xx 2.6.23 , ie, the board resets after kernel panic. It
> doesn't work for me on 2.6.24rc2 .

What actual 85xx are you using?

- k


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