linux-kernel - Re: [BUG BISECTED] boot hangs while bringing up gianfar ethernet

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Message-ID: <87prhr7mwg.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>
Date:	Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:36:15 +0100
From:	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Ira Snyder <iws@...o.caltech.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Dai Haruki <dai.haruki@...escale.com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG BISECTED] boot hangs while bringing up gianfar ethernet

>>>>> "Jarek" == Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> writes:

 Jarek> Ira Snyder wrote, On 01/29/2009 08:41 PM:
 >> Hello,
 >> 
 >> I'm working on a Freescale MPC8349EMDS board. I have been booting it
 >> over NFS for a long time now. I try to run the latest git kernels to
 >> find possible problems.
 >> 
 >> Recently, I haven't been able to boot over NFS anymore. When the machine
 >> tries to bring up the ethernet interface, it just hangs forever. There
 >> are no softlockup warnings, the machine has locked up completely.
 >> 
 >> Here is the commit I bisected it down to. I tried running git revert,
 >> but there have been other changes which prevent an easy revert.
 >> 
 >> After building each kernel, I compiled and used the dts file from that
 >> kernel. There shouldn't be any conflicts there.

 Jarek> Hi,

 Jarek> Could you try this patch?

Solves the problem for me - Thanks. I'm not familar enough with the hw
to know if's the right fix, but it certainly fixes the nfsboot issue
for me.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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