i forgot to give the link to the thread daniel refers to: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-June/thread.html#15432
i'm afraid there's not much to be drawn from there in the way of conclusions, though. paul paul wrote: > daniel wrote: > > On 10 June 2010 18:32, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > > > It's the camera controller. Hence, the other module being loaded must be > > > cafe_ccic. > > > > > > Looking at the initialization of cafe_ccic, there seems to be a > > > complicated dance of mutexes and spin locks, plus a kernel thread and a > > > bunch of sleeps. All the ingredients for a good deadlock are present :-) > > > > I doubt it is directly related to locking. > > If (as you say) there is no crash in the logs then I suspect it is > > related to an infinite loop within the initialization code. > > > > And this all seems very familiar. Google for a thread titled > > "cafe_ccic/ov7670 hang on boot" from the 8.2 days. > > I suspect we never fixed that bug upstream and that same commit needs > > to be reverted from the new kernel. > > good catch, good call. commit 8815ea29a9bcbab2a3c7fbc28987cac67c2c41d0 > is a revert for 6d77444aca298b43a88086be446f943cd0442ef7, and is present > in the testing branch (i.e., XO-1 802 and earlier), but not in our > current 2.6.31 branch. > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, p...@laptop.org > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel