Hi there,

I am using u-boot-0.3.0, linuxppc-2.4.20 and a DS1338 I2C RTC with MPC8xx CPM I2C (CONFIG_HARD_I2C and i2c-algo-8xx).

To avoid the discribed I2C edge condition I changed u-boot form HARD to SOFT_I2C. Now when booting linux I get:

---------------------------------------------------------------------- i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module i2c-algo-8xx.o: i2c mpc8xx algorithm module version 2.6.1 (20010830) i2c-rpx.o: i2c RPX Lite module i2c-dev.o: Registered 'rpx' as minor 0 Machine check in kernel mode. Caused by (from SRR1=9032): Transfer error ack signal Oops: machine check, sig: 7 NIP: C00D9320 XER: 80007E29 LR: C00D9ECC SP: C0FFDF50 REGS: c0ffdea0 TRAP: 0200 Not tainted MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 TASK = c0ffc000[1] 'swapper' Last syscall: 120 last math 00000000 last altivec 00000000 GPR00: 00000000 C0FFDF50 C0FFC000 C0176C40 00001032 00000001 C0191DFE 00000027 GPR08: 000004FA C0190000 00000000 C0FFDE40 00000001 10000000 00FE5E00 007FFF2D GPR16: 00000000 00000001 007FFF00 FFFFFFFF 00FE1A30 00000000 00FA0790 00000001 GPR24: 00000000 007FFEC0 00000000 007FFF2D C018EA70 C0176C40 FFF00860 FFF06C3A Call backtrace: C0190000 C00D9ECC C0188804 C0188630 C0185CEC C0180588 C01805D0 C000227C C0004C60 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Backtrace tells me

0xc0190000 -- 0xc018cb2c + 0x34d4 init_sunrpc 0xc00d9ecc -- 0xc00d9e68 + 0x0064 i2c_8xx_add_bus 0xc0188804 -- 0xc01887d4 + 0x0030 i2c_rpx_init 0xc0188630 -- 0xc0188614 + 0x001c i2c_init_all 0xc0185cec -- 0xc0185ca4 + 0x0048 chr_dev_init 0xc0180588 -- 0xc0180558 + 0x0030 do_initcalls 0xc01805d0 -- 0xc01805a8 + 0x0028 do_basic_setup 0xc000227c -- 0xc0002268 + 0x0014 init 0xc0004c60 -- 0xc0004c34 + 0x002c kernel_thread

Did that happen to anyone else?

Do I actually need the I2C_UCODE_PATCH for something?

Thanks,

Steven