Re: Linux-next as of 20110222 broken on OMAP4

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:50 PM, DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
<tarun.kanti@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kishore Kadiyala [mailto:kishorek.kadiyala@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:37 PM
>> To: DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
>> Cc: Tony Lindgren; Cousson, Benoit; Gadiyar, Anand; linux-omap
>> Subject: Re: Linux-next as of 20110222 broken on OMAP4
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:20 AM, DebBarma, Tarun Kanti
>> <tarun.kanti@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: linux-omap-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-omap-
>> >> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Lindgren
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:44 AM
>> >> To: Cousson, Benoit
>> >> Cc: Gadiyar, Anand; linux-omap
>> >> Subject: Re: Linux-next as of 20110222 broken on OMAP4
>> >>
>> >> * Cousson, Benoit <b-cousson@xxxxxx> [110222 04:50]:
>> >> > Hi Anand,
>> >> >
>> >> > On 2/22/2011 10:49 AM, Gadiyar, Anand wrote:
>> >> > > Looks like linux-next as of today is broken on at least OMAP4.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Turning on earlyprintk, I get a crash in omap_init_mcspi. Disabling
>> >> > > CONFIG_SPI_OMAP24XX gets me as far as the following lines from my
>> >> > > bootup log, but I haven't attempted to debug further.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > If there are any patches out there to fix this, let me know.
>> >> > > Else I will debug this sometime tomorrow.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes, it was discussed with Tony and temporarily fixed yesterday.
>> >> >
>> >> > The SPI fix is is already in omap-for-linus, and the timer1 temp fix
>> is
>> >> below.
>> >> > We need to find a better way to handle timer now that they are
>> >> initialized pretty soon.
>> >>
>> >> I applied the fix below with Paul's ack from the other thread.
>> >> So linux-next should be working again on omap4 when it gets rebuilt.
>> > I have tested on OMAP4 and OMAP3. BTW, it doesn't work on OMAP24xx.
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>> The following commit breaks OMAP2420 booting
>>
>> git bisect bad
>> 15490ef8ff8fd22d677cb5d4f6a98e5a79118dba is the first bad commit
>> commit 15490ef8ff8fd22d677cb5d4f6a98e5a79118dba
>> Author: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Wed Feb 9 16:33:46 2011 +0000
>>
>>    ARM: Avoid building unsafe kernels on OMAP2 and MX3
>>
>>    OMAP2 (armv6) and MX3 turn off support for the V6K instructions, which
>>    when they include support for SMP kernels means that the resulting
>>    kernel is unsafe on SMP and can result in corrupted filesystems as we
>>    end up using unsafe bitops.
>>
>>    Re-enable the use of V6K instructions on such kernels, and let such
>>    kernels running on V6 CPUs eat undefined instruction faults which will
>>    be much safer than filesystem corruption.  Next merge window we can fix
>>    this properly (as it requires a much bigger set of changes.)
>>
>>    Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>    Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> :040000 040000 48e40d2ece61dfc65cb701841efd31e3f7b2c0ff
>> df6ed06ca039457b7929bdd2fe5ca9ea6a331844 M      arch
> I was thinking Paul's patch already tested on N800, OMAP2420!
> [PATCH 0/8] OMAP2+: hwmod/clockevent: allow late-init of individual     hwmods
> In other words, Paul's patch fixed the breakage on OMAP24xx.
> --
> Tarun
>

Sorry it was on lkml and not on linux-next

Regards,
Kishore
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