On 01/05/2011 08:20 PM, David Miller wrote: > > Sam, just FYI, I think I know what this bug is, I've been helping > Fabio hunt down a similar bug on his machine, and he generated enough > debug info for me to work on a fix. > > The issue is that the atyfb_setup_sparc() code in the ATY driver is > doing direct PROM calls to fetch information from the device tree, and > it's doing it in such a way that we will violate the PROM restrictions > that we can only pass <4GB virtual addresses down into prom calls. > > That code should be using the in-kernel copy of the device tree, > via the of_*() interfaces, to do it's probing. And I'm going to > write such a patch to fix this bug. > > So sit tight :-) > I don't have a kernel source handy, but I think I have seen other calls to prom_* around the kernel. Might be worth doing a quick grep to make sure we don't miss others. Send me the patch over for testing once you are done :) Cheers Fabio -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
