v6 software reset fails on 1176

[jamie@jamieiles.com (Jamie Iles)]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 07:00:59PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:56:38PM +0100, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:47:36PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > You need to make sure you call cpu_reset by jumping to its *physical*
> > > address. If that happens to alias with the virtual address of the kernel, it
> > > won't currently work but I have a solution to this in my kexec branch.
> > > 
> > > You can do something like:
> > > 
> > > 	typedef void (*phys_reset_t)(unsigned long);
> > > 
> > > 	phys_reset = (phys_reset_t)virt_to_phys(cpu_reset);
> > > 	phys_reset(0xffff0000);
> > 
> > OK, that makes perfect sense!  I'll give it a go on my hardware tomorrow 
> > when I'm back in the office.
> 
> Great, let me know how you get on! I'll post my kexec series to the list
> again once I've got on top of my current patchsets.

That works a treat, thanks Will!

Jamie