In lk 3.7.0-rc4 when a peripheral clock is not found for a serial port the atmel_serial driver brings down the kernel with an oops during boot-up. This impacts the Atmel AT91 family of MCUs. For example, arch/arm/mach-at91/at91sam9x5.c does not specify properly the peripheral clocks for the UTXD0/URXD0 and UTXD1/URXD1 serial ports. Selecting either of those ports in a dts file will crash the kernel. at91sam9x5.c needs to be fixed but stopping atmel_serial crashing the kernel is more urgent. Patch attached for your consideration. Signed-of-by: Douglas Gilbert