Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:32:21 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] arm: Defer lookup of machine_type and vet of atags to setup.c |
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:24:34AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > Actually it looks like the real problem is that the mmu has been > turned on, but the virtual mappings for devices have not yet been > established, and so the debug macros aren't using a valid address.
They should be, as they're valid for use from assembly prior to MMU turn-on, assembly after MMU turn-on and C code.
If CONFIG_DEBUG_LL is enabled, create_page_tables() should be setting up the necessary initial mappings for printascii() to work.
Maybe the efforts to unify that stuff ended up breaking the printascii debugging mechanism, and we now require a new debugging mechanism to debug the printascii debugging mechanism... :-P
I've used it on Versatile Express during the last week and it did work right from before setup_arch() was called.
> It looks like I'd need to get past paging_init() in order to get > ll_debug working between turning on the mmu and paging_init(), but > paging_init() needs the mdesc pointer, and the whole point of the > error message is that the mdesc pointer is unknown! I don't see any > code that sets up a debug mapping of the uart before paging_init time.
See the #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LL section in create_page_tables in head.S
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