85xx software reset problems from paulus.git

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 28 03:26:59 EST 2007


On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Dale Farnsworth wrote:

> I wrote:
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>>> Yes. The symptoms in 2.6.24RC2 are that during a kernel panic or  
>>>>> when
>>>>> calling 'reboot' in the shell, it just hangs. Using the same dts  
>>>>> and
>>>>> resets in 2.6.23.1 reboots fine. I don't have a cds reference, but
>>>>> someone who does should be able to confirm whether the issue  
>>>>> exists
>>>>> or
>>>>> not by just attempting to reboot via bash.
>>>
>>> Can someone do a git-bisect and find the patch that breaks things?
>>
>> I'll see if I can reproduce it on my 8548cds.  If so, I'll then git- 
>> bisect.
>
> I tried this with the current powerpc.git tree on my mpc8548cds, and
> the reboot command works for me.  The system rebooted just fine.

I'm wondering if there is an issue rebooting if we are in an oops.

- k


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