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From: ijc@debian•org (Ian Campbell)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:11:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445461864.32735.21.camel@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5627F4E8.3030907@mcfarlanes.me>

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 21:26 +0100, Iain McFarlane wrote:
> Summary of progress:

Thanks for the info. I've reinstated the CC list here.

> I ended up connecting using a serial cable which was invaluable as my
> initrd was not working (see below)
> 
> I tried going backwards:
> 4.2.0 - SATA errors when flashing initrd
> 4.1.0 - SATA errors when flashing initrd
> 4.0.0 - SATA errors when flashing initrd
> 3.16 - No SATA errors when updating initrd - the kernel is flashed using
> dtb but how do I tell if it is used?

/proc/device-tree will exist. Also the Hardware field in /proc/cpuinfo
would differ, IIRC with a board file it says "QNAP TS-119/TS-219" and
with DTB it says "QNAP TS219 family".

Ian.

> it didn't help that somewhere along the line udev/initramfs/systemd is
> broken so that I had to remove all the UUID values from my fstab and go
> back to device names.
> 
> 
> On 20/10/15 22:40, Iain McFarlane wrote:
> > Posting from archive as previously not subscribed.
> >
> > I have a qnap ts-219p (kirkwood) in pieces at the moment as it is
> > failing to boot the 4.2 kernel from a brand new install of stretch.
> >
> > I am also seeing problems with the sata controller interacting with the
> > mtdblock driver
> >
> > I am going to see if rolling back a version or 2 of the kernel will work
> > tomorrow and will feedback to the list.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Iain
> >
> 
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-21 12:24 I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood Ian Campbell
2015-08-21 13:07 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-08-21 20:23   ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-05 21:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-09-06 12:11   ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-11 14:37   ` JM
2015-10-11 15:35     ` Andrew Lunn
2015-10-12 14:29       ` JM
2015-10-12 16:05         ` Rob J. Epping
2015-10-12 16:21           ` Andrew Lunn
2015-10-13  7:51             ` Ian Campbell
     [not found]               ` <5626B4DC.8000407@mcfarlanes.me>
     [not found]                 ` <5627F4E8.3030907@mcfarlanes.me>
2015-10-21 21:11                   ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-10-21 21:22                     ` Iain McFarlane
2015-10-21 21:28                       ` JM
2015-10-21 21:31                         ` Iain McFarlane
2015-10-22  0:38                       ` Andrew Lunn
2015-10-22  6:40                       ` Ian Campbell
2015-10-22  6:40                       ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-11 23:00       ` Martin Michlmayr
2016-01-11 23:22         ` Mark Brown
2016-01-11 23:43           ` Andrew Lunn
2016-01-12  1:21             ` Mark Brown
2016-01-12  0:07           ` Martin Michlmayr
2016-01-12  0:47             ` Mark Brown
2016-01-12  1:19               ` Andrew Lunn
2016-01-12  1:31                 ` Mark Brown
2016-01-12 16:29                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-01-12 18:02                   ` Mark Brown
2016-01-12 21:49                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-01-12 22:00                       ` Mark Brown
2016-01-12 22:41                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-01-13 11:42                           ` Mark Brown

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