From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933288Ab1KHUvg (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:51:36 -0500 Received: from smtp141.dfw.emailsrvr.com ([67.192.241.141]:50915 "EHLO smtp141.dfw.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755386Ab1KHUvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:51:35 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 515 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:51:35 EST Message-ID: <4EB99452.1090204@iwl.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:42:58 -0800 From: Karl Auerbach Reply-To: karl@iwl.com Organization: InterWorking Labs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tomoya MORINAGA Subject: Re: Kernel (3.0 and later) panic References: <4EB83D4A.4010408@iwl.com> <20111108141014.2dfd614f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111108141014.2dfd614f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The patch you sent (in a separate email) works. Several of us using the new Soekris Net6501 will be very happy. Thanks for taking a look at this and fixing it so quickly. --karl-- Karl Auerbach On 11/08/2011 06:10 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:19:22 -0800 > Karl Auerbach wrote: > >> Versions 3.0 and later of the Linux kernel get a null pointer panic when >> booting on a Soekris Net6501 board. >> >> The documentation for that board is at: >> >> http://soekris.com/media/manuals/net6501_manual.pdf >> >> (It's an Intel Atom based board.) > > And with an EG20T. Yes I see whats going on. > > I think its being caused by Tomoya Morinaga's patch to handle EG20T > nicely. If you don't have the EG20T driver in then it tries to fall back > to 8250 but the entries are missing > > .setup = pci_default_setup. > > > Patch to test will follow in about 2 minutes. Please test and report back. > > Alan