Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2007-09-26

Re: [PATCH4/4] [POWERPC] Fix cpm_uart driver

From: Scott Wood <hidden>
Date: 2007-09-24 18:22:47
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Jochen Friedrich wrote:
Scott Wood schrieb:
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Jochen Friedrich wrote:
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In cpm_uart_core, functions cpm_uart_init_bd and cpm_uart_init_scc
an offset into DP RAM is calculated by substracting a physical
memory constant from an virtual address. This patch fixes the
problem by converting the virtual address into a physical
first.
Huh?  DPRAM_BASE is a virtual address.  With this patch, you'd be 
subtracting a virtual address from a physical address.
Thanks for pointing me to it. So the bug is in cpm_uart_cpm1.h assigning 
a physical memory to DPRAM_BASE (at least on ARC=ppc). cpm_uart_cpm2.h 
seems to be correct though. I'll submit a new patch for this.
cpmp is a physical address on arch/ppc?
/me looks at arch/ppc/8xx_io/commproc.c

Yikes.  Please don't change cpm_uart_cpm1.h, as it's correct for 
arch/powerpc, and there are numerous other places that assume cpmp is 
virtual (including in the very same function that assigns it a physical 
address).

You could fix arch/ppc if you want, though it may be easier to wait for 
it to die, and insist on identity maps in the meantime. :-)

-Scott
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