Hi Marek,
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:23 PM Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26.02.2020 21:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:57 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 06:56:06PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 6:49 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> >>> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 07:35:14AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >>>>> On 25.02.2020 15:47, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >>>>>> At early boot, register r8 may contain an ATAGs or DTB pointer.
> >>>>>> When an appended DTB is found, its address is stored in r8, for
> >>>>>> extraction of the RAM base address later.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> However, if r8 contained an ATAGs pointer before, that pointer will be
> >>>>>> lost, and the provided ATAGs is no longer folded into the provided DTB.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Fix this by leaving r8 untouched.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Fixes: 137e522593918be2 ("ARM: 8960/1: boot: Obtain start of physical memory from DTB")
> >>>>>> Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> The original commit hasn't been submitted, so it can be fixed before it
> >>>> hits mainline if you want. Let me know what you want to do. Thanks.
> >>> Fixing the original is fine for me, of course.
> >>> Thanks!
> >> Please submit a replacement for 8960/1, thanks.
> > Done.
>
> Gentle ping. This fix is still not present in linux-next for over 2 weeks...
According to
https://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8963
the fixed version was applied less than one hour ago.
It's now part of arm/for-next.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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