Hi (After some confusion about kernel version, I think I found the problem, sorry about that). I used binutils 2.15 and 2.16.1, but did not work. The code in the ehci-hcd.c looks like this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ehci->periodic_size = DEFAULT_I_TDPS; if ((retval = ehci_mem_init(ehci, GFP_KERNEL)) < 0) return retval; /* controllers may cache some of the periodic schedule ... */ hcc_params = readl(&ehci->caps->hcc_params); if (HCC_ISOC_CACHE(hcc_params)) // full frame cache ehci->i_thresh = 8; else // N microframes cached ehci->i_thresh = 2 + HCC_ISOC_THRES(hcc_params); ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is *AFTER* the call to ehci_mem_init, where a read from ehci->caps->hcc_params is attempted, but caps is NULL. This can be seen by this assembly code form Insight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x80350758 jal 0x802a3f40 <memset> 0x8035075c sll a2,a2,0x2 0x80350760 lw v1,0(s0) 0x80350764 lw a2,8(v1) s0 points to ehci at offset 0 from ehci is caps and at offset 8 from caps is hcc_params ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where should the caps be initialized? The only place, where it is set in drivers/usb/ is in drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /* called during probe() after chip reset completes */ static int ehci_pci_setup(struct usb_hcd *hcd) { struct ehci_hcd *ehci = hcd_to_ehci(hcd); struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(hcd->self.controller); u32 temp; int retval; ehci->caps = hcd->regs; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- But the ehci-pci.c is not included in the compilation, because at the end of ehci-hcd.c we find: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #if defined(CONFIG_SOC_AU1X00) #include "ehci-au1xxx.c" #elif defined(CONFIG_PCI) #include "ehci-pci.c" #else #error "missing bus glue for ehci-hcd" #endif ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What should be done? I hope this helps. BR, Matej