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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Povolotsky, Alexander" <Alexander.Povolotsky@marconi.com>
Cc: 'Steven Blakeslee' <BlakesleeS@embeddedplanet.com>,
	"'linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org'" <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.10-rc3 8xx: debugging (over-writing) content of b d_in fo structure in the kernel booting code
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:29:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050118202913.GC6883@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <313680C9A886D511A06000204840E1CF0A647502@whq-msgusr-02.pit.comms.marconi.com>

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote:
> My board is using:
> 
>         bd->bi_intfreq = 50000000;
>         bd->bi_busfreq = 50000000;
> 
> While RPX-Lite is using
> 
>         bd->bi_intfreq = 48000000;
>         bd->bi_busfreq = 48000000; 
> 
> Is this what makes RPX-Lite work and my (MPC 880) not ?

That, of course, depends on which value is correct for your
board... :-)

When I mentioned in one of our (possibly off-line) exchanges that
_slightly_ incorrect clock speeds might explain how you get a few good
characters from the serial port before you get all that garbage, this
is the kind of descrepancy I was suggesting.  There may be enough
"slop" in the timings of the relatively slow serial port to make
48MHz and 50MHz "close enough" for a few characters.

So, what is the correct number for your board?  Do you know how to
identify an oscillator?  They have a bit of a 'tin can' look to them.
Find the one closest to the CPU on the board, and see what number is
on it.

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-18 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-18 19:08 Linux 2.6.10-rc3 8xx: debugging (over-writing) content of b d_in fo structure in the kernel booting code Povolotsky, Alexander
2005-01-18 20:29 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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2005-01-18 20:45 Povolotsky, Alexander

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