Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751602AbdIORD3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:03:29 -0400 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:27388 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751575AbdIORD2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:03:28 -0400 From: Paul Burton To: Marcin Nowakowski CC: , Mathieu Malaterre , "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [PATCH for 4.9 11/59] MIPS: fix mem=X@Y commandline processing Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:03:18 -0700 Message-ID: <3096328.Gt2m8chjZN@np-p-burton> Organization: Imagination Technologies In-Reply-To: <7c4d02d8-3d96-3471-89b2-dba606367218@imgtec.com> References: <20170914155051.8289-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> <7c4d02d8-3d96-3471-89b2-dba606367218@imgtec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1947975.X4ZMmuJ0sv"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-IP: [10.20.78.32] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2201 Lines: 51 --nextPart1947975.X4ZMmuJ0sv Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Marcin, On Thursday, 14 September 2017 22:44:18 PDT Marcin Nowakowski wrote: > >>> Does not work on MIPS Creator CI20. See: > >> Hm, so upstream is actually broken right now? > > > > Yes, at least on Creator CI20. You need to clear out all your mem=X@Y > > from your boot command line, or apply the new patch I mentionned > > above, or revert 73fbc1eba7ffa3bf0ad12486232a8a1edb4e4411. > > Yes, there is this issue that Mathieu discovered that upstream suffers > from. My patch that fixes it has not yet been merged - but hopefully > will be included in the next release. > Luckily the issue is only seen with a specific set of commandline > arguments which are not even required - but are set as defaults by the > CI20 bootloader. FYI the mem= arguments were required for the older v3.0 kernels which derived from Ingenic's android kernels, and up until now have been harmless for newer kernels so they generally make sense for the bootloader to provide in case people want to run anything using the older kernels. Thanks, Paul --nextPart1947975.X4ZMmuJ0sv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEELIGR03D5+Fg+69wPgiDZ+mk8HGUFAlm8B9YACgkQgiDZ+mk8 HGXisw/+MgTFrvC0WKI9aLC7lpLfA8ejfsuwpoUSvt4h3cofrPmYdhK6WA5iqSWm HhPdjCZE94X8a4RfZINdDk+WfP8JbYwRSbrKx+mJQGQwUf9HtfLYJOmADoaUoXon WtYNjk6JzuSlMzPtcTWpbHKOb3dS9c33fsOCjrmSlmtXzLkw9bVQFXrl0dVL7pAq GW37wVKHUq7HIqKo29s0MgE5oKS02YJnztOFhap2SOu9ab+LrUw4jsVSOuDsGrkm yAEPRQU3W+XrofvevKnj0PjNzkx310ikXQz18BiKxTcUVi5xe4UnBP80zfME8jDw lwVnjPj2JECTJcX/IyjV7nRHf0FLH3LeltC9kzn52SOHBka3fe51b18AcnASDtft UbKs1zDasUABhcESIib7dGsDy8inYRii1hg/n1HAvj1uQUq/u3iJtbUvMILqj9fX mrvMkd/hseYypygU6e+WoiVd8qR57h2BpuRiIzlQ6EMtI38DERnGJytjG76I2D4M LXm5wdOaX5wfzHBmZPaksyjHWc4C98VfDNFbyM14ndhXzsZYQJgJ+h5PAf1ZGSui xZsViUk3bGiwodr3pXakUFdNKsYDALfIbNudFmDhhMNNarJxxx1MyfLlpfQPDdpt ozeqzBzmeWemIni4LTfRciC24YFwxdqdECUzyuiWfhKp9FxEXtA= =SFw6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1947975.X4ZMmuJ0sv--