Re: "kernel access of bad area" while accessing flash

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:13:39PM -0700, Fundu wrote:
>I have a PPC440GX based board.
>
>Do I need to reinitialize Peripheral Bank Configuration Registers (EBC0_B0CR-EBC0_B7CR) from the kernel ?
>I'm quite sure that we don't, but just want to make sure. Because the problem
>that i'm seeing strongly suggest that it's probably not accessible. 

Typically not.  The kernel tends to rely on the EBC registers being properly
programmed by the bootloader/firmware for the devices contained in it's banks.

>Here's the problem, i'm getting "kernel access of bad
> area" when i erase any of the upper 64mb out of 128mb flash region, surprisingly i can easily erase (all of the flash) from u-boot. which makes me ask the earlier question.   
>

That sounds more like a mapping issue than an EBC config issue.  Make sure
the kernel is calling ioremap on the entire flash memory region.

josh
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