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From: ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk (Ben Dooks)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [E1000-devel] ARM support for igb driver
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:57:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <538DE24E.10904@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5368F898.2000803@intel.com>

On 06/05/14 15:58, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Shiv,
> 
> I think we are at the limits of what we can do from the Intel end.
> Based on the comments from Thomas it sounds like there shouldn't be any
> issues specifically with ARM that prevent the use of IGB PCIe devices,
> and the fact is the error your are seeing "Unhandled fault: imprecise
> external abort (0x1406) at 0x00000000" can indicate some sort of bus
> fault.  It would probably be best to work with someone more familiar
> with the inner workings of ARM CPUs as they might be able to work out
> some other workarounds for the external abort.

I did send a pair of patches for this, as imprecise aborts are not
traceable to their source instruction and there is a case that it
should not abort any tasks.

-- 
Ben Dooks				http://www.codethink.co.uk/
Senior Engineer				Codethink - Providing Genius

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-03 14:57 UTC|newest]

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2014-05-05 15:28                   ` [E1000-devel] ARM support for igb driver Alexander Duyck
     [not found]                     ` <CAHH3p5KEbvziVxg-9o45-chp=6U2JnW=ffk1p85GKFyWXiX8CQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-05 20:00                       ` Alexander Duyck
2014-05-05 20:38                     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-05-05 21:20                       ` Alexander Duyck
     [not found]                         ` <CAHH3p5L4DaORYJ8_6zMEY3ikEnABU1L0B2C6Fezb_g6dCjtr5Q@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-06 14:58                           ` Alexander Duyck
2014-06-03 14:57                             ` Ben Dooks [this message]
2014-05-06 15:18                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-06 15:24                           ` Lucas Stach
2014-05-06 15:33                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-30 11:50                               ` shiv prakash Agarwal
2014-05-30 17:21                                 ` Alexander Duyck
2014-05-30 18:02                                   ` shiv prakash Agarwal
2014-05-30 19:18                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2014-05-30 19:35                                       ` shiv prakash Agarwal
2014-05-30 19:56                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-30 20:14                                           ` shiv prakash Agarwal
2014-05-30 21:11                                             ` Fujinaka, Todd
2014-05-31 18:34                                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-01  5:56                                               ` shiv prakash Agarwal
2014-06-01 11:46                                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-02  4:53                                                   ` shiv prakash Agarwal
2014-06-02 16:05                                                     ` Fujinaka, Todd
2014-06-03 12:33                                                       ` shiv prakash Agarwal
2014-06-03 14:49                         ` Ben Dooks
2014-06-03 15:05                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-03 15:13                             ` Ben Dooks
2014-06-03 15:23                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-03 15:31                                 ` Ben Dooks

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