From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: [BUG BISECTED] boot hangs while bringing up gianfar ethernet Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:54:56 +0000 Message-ID: <20090209135456.GA6313@ff.dom.local> References: <20090207225555.GA2680@ami.dom.local> <87prhr7mwg.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ira Snyder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Dai Haruki , Andy Fleming To: Peter Korsgaard Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f21.google.com ([209.85.219.21]:50380 "EHLO mail-ew0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753630AbZBINzE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:55:04 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87prhr7mwg.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:36:15PM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Jarek" == Jarek Poplawski writes: > > Jarek> Ira Snyder wrote, On 01/29/2009 08:41 PM: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm working on a Freescale MPC8349EMDS board. I have been booting it > >> over NFS for a long time now. I try to run the latest git kernels to > >> find possible problems. > >> > >> Recently, I haven't been able to boot over NFS anymore. When the machine > >> tries to bring up the ethernet interface, it just hangs forever. There > >> are no softlockup warnings, the machine has locked up completely. > >> > >> Here is the commit I bisected it down to. I tried running git revert, > >> but there have been other changes which prevent an easy revert. > >> > >> After building each kernel, I compiled and used the dts file from that > >> kernel. There shouldn't be any conflicts there. > > Jarek> Hi, > > Jarek> Could you try this patch? > > Solves the problem for me - Thanks. I'm not familar enough with the hw > to know if's the right fix, but it certainly fixes the nfsboot issue > for me. I guess a few more familiar eyes will have a look at it yet, but let's wait for Ira first. Thanks very much for testing, Jarek P.