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From: "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys.net>
To: Alan Nishioka <alan@nishioka.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: FW: Error occured when appended FPGA image in the section of .init.text then bootup
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 13:07:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484185E9.6040207@dlasys.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4841270B.9080805@nishioka.com>

Is there some reason this patch is not getting pushed into mainline ?



Alan Nishioka wrote:
> 朱利达 wrote:
>   
>>     The request below give rise to the problem.
>>     I have some boards equiped with MPC8247 and FPGA without storage
>>     media which used as a PCI interface. So when the linux bootup
>>     before initialize the PCI, the code of FPGA will download. I
>>     append the FPGA code file in the Kernel section '.init.text'. when
>>     linux bootup firstly it check the board type(different board type
>>     would download different code), and download fpga code. More board
>>     types lead to more FPGA code. I append them all in the section of
>>     '.init.text'. when the total size of the code reach out 2M. The
>>     error occured. I read the '__log_buf' the kernel access some bad
>>     area. As the powerpce603 will map 16M address use two bat, how and
>>     why the problem occured, and how to solved it .
>>
>>     
>
> Since the error occurs at 2M, I am going to guess it is similar to
> problem I had. The default link/load address for booting is 0x200000.
>
> Here is a link:
> <http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc-embedded/patch?id=14717>
>
> This fix is for the arch/ppc tree. I don't know if the arch/powerpc tree
> works the same way.
>
> In the future, you should say what kernel version you are using and what
> the error was.
>
> Alan Nishioka
> alan@nishioka.com
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-31 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-31  8:31 FW: Error occured when appended FPGA image in the section of .init.text then bootup 朱利达
2008-05-31 10:23 ` Alan Nishioka
2008-05-31 17:07   ` David H. Lynch Jr. [this message]
2008-05-31 17:57     ` Josh Boyer
2008-05-31 18:34       ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2008-05-31 19:44         ` Josh Boyer
2008-06-01  5:59   ` 朱利达

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