Re: [PATCH, RFC]

2009-03-07 Thread Grant Likely
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Eddie Dawydiuk wrote: > Hello, > >>> So if you have any suggestions on >>> this approach using the simpleImage please let me know. >> >> Before I answer this, what bootloader are you using? > > We are using a custom bootloader we developed ourselves. The bootloader

Re: 83xx: Marking or Allocating Pages as Cache-Inhibited

2009-03-07 Thread Ben Menchaca
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt < b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:12 -0600, Ben Menchaca wrote: > > Testing now...it looks like it (almost) works, though! Why does > > setting no-snoop cause snooping to work? More on the effect on > > setting th

KGDB over serial on xilinx virtex-5 (ppc440)

2009-03-07 Thread srikanth krishnakar
Hi all, Has anybody tested KGDBOC in linux-2.6.28 for Xilinx Virtex-5 PowerPC target boards.. I just see that KGDB waits for remote connection from GDB host, but unfortunately Command line arguments were : console=ttyS0 ip=bootp root=/dev/nfs rw kgdboc=ttyS0 kgdbwait The test is been done on

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/usb: Fix 440EPx USBH_3 & USBH_5 EHCI errata

2009-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:30 +, - Reyneke wrote: > Patch applies to 440EPx devices in USB EHCI host mode (USB 2.0). > > >From the 440EPx errata: > > USBH_3: Host hangs after underrun or overrun occurs > USBH_5: EHCI0_INSNREGxx registers are reset by a Soft or Light Host > Controller Reset >

Re: 83xx: Marking or Allocating Pages as Cache-Inhibited

2009-03-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:12 -0600, Ben Menchaca wrote: > Testing now...it looks like it (almost) works, though! Why does > setting no-snoop cause snooping to work? More on the effect on > setting that bit in a few minutes...need more testing. Maybe they got the documentation for that bit backwar

Re: [PATCH, RFC]

2009-03-07 Thread Eddie Dawydiuk
Hello, >> So if you have any suggestions on >> this approach using the simpleImage please let me know. > > Before I answer this, what bootloader are you using? We are using a custom bootloader we developed ourselves. The bootloader is very minimal as one of our primary design goals is a fast boot

Re: [PATCH, RFC]

2009-03-07 Thread Grant Likely
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Eddie Dawydiuk wrote: > Hello, > >> But the question remains: Why do you need simpleboot support for >> Yosemite when you can use a uImage or cuImage with u-boot? > > We are developing a new board based upon the Yosemite board. Seeing as > though the Yosemite board

Re: [PATCH, RFC]

2009-03-07 Thread Grant Likely
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Eddie Dawydiuk wrote: > Hello, > >> On a more general note; this patch also diverges from the original >> model for simple image.  The idea behind simpleimage was that it would >> contain a fully formed device tree, with no fixups necessary.  I want >> to think care

Re: [PATCH, RFC]

2009-03-07 Thread Eddie Dawydiuk
Hello, > On a more general note; this patch also diverges from the original > model for simple image. The idea behind simpleimage was that it would > contain a fully formed device tree, with no fixups necessary. I want > to think carefully before diverging from that. I wasn't aware of these des

Re: [PATCH, RFC]

2009-03-07 Thread Eddie Dawydiuk
Hello, > But the question remains: Why do you need simpleboot support for > Yosemite when you can use a uImage or cuImage with u-boot? We are developing a new board based upon the Yosemite board. Seeing as though the Yosemite board was supported in the mainline kernel I decided to start with that

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/5200: remove sysfs debug file from GPT driver

2009-03-07 Thread Wolfram Sang
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:31:41PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > Wolfram, you were right. This was a bad idea. I just took me a bit > longer to clue into it. Instant ACK :D Thanks! Acked-by: Wolfram Sang -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang| Industrial

Re: Davicom DM9000A on MPC5200B (powerpc) works using a dirty offsetting and byte trick

2009-03-07 Thread Juergen Beisert
Henk, On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Henk Stegeman wrote: > - Any suggestions to what could be wrong here? Or does the MPC5200 in > this case only byte swap u16 reads, but a u8 read is unchanged? You should not follow the Freescale bus signal names when you connect your external little endian dev