On 24.01.2013, at 19:57, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 24 January 2013 18:54, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: >> On 22.12.2012, at 20:03, Christoffer Dall wrote: >>> The start bit should only be set to indicate that a function call is >>> underway, right now. When done with function, clear it. >> >> Is this the reason 3.8 doesn't run properly? > > It appears to be one of the reasons. The other is that > the kernel is trashing the device tree because it > happens to be sitting in the same page as the last > part-page of the initrd, and free_initrd_mem() rounds > up to a page boundary when poisoning memory after > the initrd has been uncompressed. > > I think there is also some noise because we don't > emulate the oscillator and voltage regulator control > sysregs, but the kernel boots anyway.
Does it reboot / shut down for you with this patch? Alex
