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Re: [ts-7000] Occassional boot problem...

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Occassional boot problem...
From: Lennert Buytenhek <>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:21:25 +0100
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:27:16PM +0000, Jim Jackson wrote:

> I've noticed an occasional boot failure with my ts7200, requiring use of
> the reset button. I _think_ it never happens when the ts7200 has no
> ethernet connection. Then I saw this post on the linux-cirrus list.
> Anyone know if this could be a problem?

It could very well be the problem.  As part of the ep93xx upstream code
submission (which will also support the TS-7200, by the way, courtesy of
a friendly soul who helped testing on the TS-7200), I'm hoping to get a
patch into 2.6.17 that disables the ethernet DMA before uncompressing
linux, to work around the problem.

(Ever since I enabled the workaround, I haven't seen boot failures
anymore, while previously the kernel would fail to boot once every 4 or
5 tries.)


--L


 
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