linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc6 bombs while compiling a kernel for a linkstation/kurobox

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Message-ID: <20090304010453.GA18621@ime.usp.br>
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:04:53 -0300
From:	Rogério Brito <rbrito@....usp.br>
To:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	Tony Breeds <tony@...eyournoodle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>, paulus@...ba.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc6 bombs while compiling a kernel for a
	linkstation/kurobox

On Mar 04 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Yes, linkstation and storcenter have to migrate to the "physmap-flash" 
> platform driver. For now you can define in your .config
> 
> CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP=y
> CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_COMPAT=y
> CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_START=0xffc00000
> CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_LEN=0x400000
> CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_BANKWIDTH=1

I did that already yesterday. Please, see my patch at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123606933628020&w=4

And the entry at bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12811

> (I hope the numbers are correct, just found them in my local tree, don't 
> remember any more what exactly they configure, please, double-check.)

Yes, I had them in my tree also. And it is tested already, up and
running and in production for 17 hours.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
rbrito@...z:~$ uptime
 22:03:16 up 17:06,  1 user,  load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01
rbrito@...z:~$ 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

> And yes, it must be fixed in the mainline. I'll see if I find time for
> this, maybe tomorrow (actually, already today.)

Please, Cc me any relevant patches, as I'm not subscribed to all those
lists.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

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