Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2009-02-09

Re: [BUG BISECTED] boot hangs while bringing up gianfar ethernet

From: Jarek Poplawski <hidden>
Date: 2009-02-09 13:55:25
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:36:15PM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
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"Jarek" == Jarek Poplawski [off-list ref] writes:
 Jarek> Ira Snyder wrote, On 01/29/2009 08:41 PM:
 >> Hello,
 >> 
 >> I'm working on a Freescale MPC8349EMDS board. I have been booting it
 >> over NFS for a long time now. I try to run the latest git kernels to
 >> find possible problems.
 >> 
 >> Recently, I haven't been able to boot over NFS anymore. When the machine
 >> tries to bring up the ethernet interface, it just hangs forever. There
 >> are no softlockup warnings, the machine has locked up completely.
 >> 
 >> Here is the commit I bisected it down to. I tried running git revert,
 >> but there have been other changes which prevent an easy revert.
 >> 
 >> After building each kernel, I compiled and used the dts file from that
 >> kernel. There shouldn't be any conflicts there.

 Jarek> Hi,

 Jarek> Could you try this patch?

Solves the problem for me - Thanks. I'm not familar enough with the hw
to know if's the right fix, but it certainly fixes the nfsboot issue
for me.
I guess a few more familiar eyes will have a look at it yet, but let's
wait for Ira first.

Thanks very much for testing,
Jarek P.
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