On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 11:42 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I suspect this is due to the lack of this u-boot patch: > > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-February/117020.html > > > > I found that without this my 3.2 dreamplug kernel would not boot (with > > the 2011.12-2 package from debian). It's related to > > CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT. > > For the record, this proposed u-boot change has been filed as > <http://bugs.debian.org/658904>. > > The inability to work with versions of u-boot without that change > (workaround?) in the default configuration still would seem to be a > regression in the kernel, so pointers toward solving it would be very > welcome.
I hacked my kernel (the Kconfig files) to allow me to turn off PATCH_PHYS_VIRT and it also worked. However AIUI PATCH_VIRT_PHYS is part of the infrastructure which allows a single kernel flavour to boot on multiple machines so turning it off is not a viable workaround. I think this is just a latent bug in u-boot which has been exposed by a recent kernel changes and should be treated as a bug to be fixed in u-boot. I personally wouldn't consider it a regression in the kernel (at least based on my understanding of what's going on). Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1328562531.8895.8.ca...@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk
