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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru•mvista.com>
To: Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 flash boot
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:48:57 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4697D729.5010307@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713194013.GU2660@chiana.homelinux.org>

Hello.

Marc Leeman wrote:

> With the release of the 2.6.22, our boards didn't boot anymore. I traced
> the change back to 2.6.21-git10/2.6.21-git11. 

> The reason they didn't boot was that the kernel  didn't detect the flash
> where the root filesystem is stored on. The boards boot without an
> initrd, directly from flash.

> A file was removed (rom.c) and mentioned as obsolete in the ChangeLog.

[...]

> Am I missing something here?

    It's been removed as conflicting with the new of_device probing code.
You can either register the "rom" device explicitly in your platform code, or 
put it on some bus below the ones specified to of_platform_device_probe() -- 
by your platform code again...

WBR, Sergei

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-13 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13 19:40 2.6.22 flash boot Marc Leeman
2007-07-13 19:48 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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