Thanks, Ian. I understand. Do any of you know if there are any ready-rolled u-boot binaries for Dockstar available out there that incorporate this fix?
Perhaps tbm's u-boot upgrades here : ?? http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.html thnx, Davy On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 11:42 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > > I suspect this is due to the lack of this u-boot patch: > > > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-February/117020.html > > > > > > I found that without this my 3.2 dreamplug kernel would not boot (with > > > the 2011.12-2 package from debian). It's related to > > > CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT. > > > > For the record, this proposed u-boot change has been filed as > > <http://bugs.debian.org/658904>. > > > > The inability to work with versions of u-boot without that change > > (workaround?) in the default configuration still would seem to be a > > regression in the kernel, so pointers toward solving it would be very > > welcome. > > I hacked my kernel (the Kconfig files) to allow me to turn off > PATCH_PHYS_VIRT and it also worked. > > However AIUI PATCH_VIRT_PHYS is part of the infrastructure which allows > a single kernel flavour to boot on multiple machines so turning it off > is not a viable workaround. > > I think this is just a latent bug in u-boot which has been exposed by a > recent kernel changes and should be treated as a bug to be fixed in > u-boot. I personally wouldn't consider it a regression in the kernel (at > least based on my understanding of what's going on). > > Ian. > > >
