Re: Panic in simple_map_write called from cfi_probe_chip

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:13 +0200, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> I decided to play around with all the new shiny stuff in 2.6.17-rc6-mm2,
> and tried to build a nearly allyesconfig kernel. After some tries,
> I got to the point where it still runs after uncompressing, and got
> into a panic.
> 
> [   31.270647] Photron PNC-2000 flash mapping: 400000 at bf000000
> [   31.270737] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address bf000000 

Yeah. The Photron PNC-2000 mapping assumes that the flash was already
mapped. I'm not entirely sure why it does that. I'm also vaguely
surprised that it's an x86 device -- for some reason I thought it was
MIPS, which would have made bf000000 make a lot more sense.

-- 
dwmw2

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