Re: MVME 2306 almost up and running

Matt Porter [off-list ref] writes:

All 21143-based boards shipped to this point had a non-compliant DEC SROM
which caused overruns in the driver's private structure that leads to the
crash in del_timer.  I've attached a patch to handle this bad value and
worked with David Davies so it should make it's way into the kernel
eventually.  Newly manufactured boards should be leaving with corrected
SROMs...I'd like to give the person who misread the spec a swift kick in
the knees...turns out that the SROMs from all the PowerPlus boards ever
made are non-compliant only they don't crash the de4x5 driver. 

I just tried your fix on a MVME2307 with the DEC21143. I'm using
2.2.1+Gabriels patch. I still see the crash in del_timer as called
from disable_ast. The function type1_infoblock() isn't even called as
far as I can see.


/Micke

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Michael Lundkvist
Epact Technology AB
ml@epact.se

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