Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] m68k goes DT

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jan 09 2025 - 05:31:36 EST


Hi Daniel,

On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM Daniel Palmer <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> - The head.S code sometimes gets stuck setting up the mmu on my MVME147 when
> the kernel binary layout changes. I thought for a long time my new code was
> wrong but then discovered just making the kernel bigger by adding some printk()s
> also caused it.

What is your kernel size? Perhaps the code to map 8 or 16 MiB of
the first memory chunk doesn't work on 68030?

There could also be some alignment issues. IIRC, there is code that
expects the FDT to be 8-byte aligned.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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