Appended devicetree with Torvalds' HEAD

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Sep 19 17:34:35 EST 2011


On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:17 PM, David Brown <davidb at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:34:20PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:42 PM, David Brown <davidb at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:52:43PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> >
>> >> My latest patchset is here:
>> >>
>> >>   git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux zImage_DTB_append
>> >>
>> >> I'm not fully satisfied to send them upstream yet though.
>> >
>> > These patches do appear to still work on MSM.
>>
>> Hm I wonder what is wrong on our end, probably our own fault :-/
>>
>> Arey you encapsulating the zImage+DTB in a uImage like I do
>> (so as to use with elder U-Boot) or are you using some other
>> method to get the zImage+DTB into the system?
>
> Our targets use littlekernel (an Android bootloader), so the
> zImage+DTB is combined with an initrd using mkbootimage.
>
> The first time I tried the append patches (not this version), I did
> end up having to use JTAG to debug it, and even then the problem was
> confusing, since a bug was causing it to move all of the code around
> in memory, but some was still cached.
>
> Are you getting far enough to print messages with DEBUG_LL?

Nope :-(

So it'll be JTAG if I should get further with this.

Linus Walleij


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