Re: QSD8250 illegal instruction on WinCE devices

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On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 22:50 +0100, Lukas-David Gorris wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The segmentation fault problem on htcleo and other WinCE based qs8250  
> devices is solved. We need to set the cpu into some magic mode before  
> boot and all cpu crashes are gone.

Great! I'm glad that someone figure it out.

> As suspected it is in fact in some way related to WinCE VS. linux  
> device: A WinCE developer with low level knowledge by the name of K,  
> 'Cotulla' Ivan looked at the bootloader of qsd8250 based htc bravo,  
> one of the _linux_ phones with the chip. This is where the necessary  
> cpu init code was discovered. This init code is obviously not needed  
> and used for WinCE which is why we were in 'crash mode' when booting  
> linux. It is suppoed to be some workaround for a 'hardware bug'.

Was a specific instruction discovered that fix it? The files and patches
that you provided include a fair amount of code.

Daniel

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