[PATCH] sparc32: fix initrd memcpy problem
The latter hunk of the forwarded patch has already been applied, so please apply the patch as it appears in the un-forwarded part. I've taken some liberties in adding the Acked/Signed-off lines in what I hope is an agreeable way. On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:16:40PM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote: > As a followup: I have tried fiddling more with the memcpy() routine. > Insight from Rob Radez and comments in arch/sparc/lib/blockops.S suggest, > that __copy_1page assumes that the memory regions copied are aligned on a > double-word boundary. I have checked, that in the cramfs case it wasn't > true, the destination was not aligned on the double-word boundary. So, I > have implemented a simple workaround (see patch below), which together > with Bob Breuer's iommu.c fix [0] made 2.6.8 kernel to boot on my > machine (SS10 with Ross Hypersparc CPU)! I also confirm, that adding the > suggested fix to the srmmu.c also [1] breaks sunlance on my machine. With > that "fix" the line 'eth0: Memory error, status 88c3, addr 3713ba' is > displayed continuously during boot, when it comes to configuring network > interfaces. The successful patch for me is: Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Acked-by: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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