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From: john@jjdev.com (John de la Garza)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: booting arm board
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:38:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150112033805.GA12195@vega.jjdev.com> (raw)

I am trying to boot a foxg20 board.  It uses an at91sam9g20 chip an
used to work in linux 3.5.  I am looking for some advice on how to get
mainline linux to boot on it.

I first tried bisecting and found this commit:
4cf3326ab5f34a333a46c59d0d3783db9cef13bf

which is where it wouldn't boot

I figured I should understand what broke, I ended up simply upping
MMC_CMD_RETRIES from 3 to 10.  So I was able to boot the version that
caused it to not work.  This change doesn't fix the lastest has unified
some of the driver code.

My question is:

What is a good way to boot the latest kernel?  Should I see where it
breaks then keeping fixing that and moving forward or should I just
start with the latest and take it from there?

             reply	other threads:[~2015-01-12  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-12  3:38 John de la Garza [this message]
2015-01-12  3:44 ` booting arm board nick
2015-01-12  6:05   ` sanjeev sharma
2015-01-12 12:32 ` Greg KH

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