Sequoia 440EPx patches not working

Valentine Barshak vbarshak at ru.mvista.com
Fri Aug 10 02:33:47 EST 2007


Jerone Young wrote:
> So did a rebase on kernel.org 2.6.23-rc2 patch (as opposed the latest
> git). I am using Uboot version  1.2.0-gc0c292b2. This is the version
> that came with the board. It still appears to hang during early boot on
> my Sequoia.
> 
> Trying the cuImage.sequoia.bin.gz just result in Uboot giving "Bad Magic
> Number" when trying to boot it. This is also the same for using
> cuImage.sequoia.elf. 
> 
> So when I use the uImage file it will load but just hang after it's
> loaded. I'm building it using "make uImage CROSS_COMPILE=<cross prefix>
> ARCH=powerpc" on an x86 box.
> 
> I'll see what else I could possibly be doing wrong (maybe something
> happened to the patch when I grabbed it off of gmane and the web filters
> did something to it, I did have to fix a problem where in the
> sequoia.dts file the web filter replace "@" with " at ". This was simple
> enough to fix. Maybe something else when wrong. I'll see what else I can
> look at.
> 
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:56 +0400, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:45:10 -0500
>> Jerone Young wrote:
>>
>>> Using the Sequoia (AMCC 440EPx) patches recently submitted to the
>>> list I am unable to boot to fully boot a uImage built with these
>>> patches under Uboot. It appears to hang in very early boot.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is the output:
>>> => tftp 400000
>>> sequoia/uImage ENET Speed is 100 Mbps - FULL duplex connection
>>> (EMAC0) Using ppc_4xx_eth0
>>> device TFTP from server 9.53.41.24; our IP address is
>>> 9.53.41.38 Filename
>>> 'sequoia/uImage'. Load address:
>>> 0x400000 Loading:
>>> #################################################################
>>> #################################################################
>>> #################################################################
>>> #######################
>>> done Bytes transferred = 1112434 (10f972
>>> hex) => bootm
>>> 400000 ## Booting image at
>>> 00400000 ... Image Name:
>>> Linux-2.6.23-rc2 Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip
>>> compressed) Data Size:    1112370 Bytes =  1.1
>>> MB Load Address:
>>> 00000000 Entry Point:
>>> 00000000 Verifying Checksum ...
>>> OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK 
>>>
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>> This seems to be a wrong image..
>>
>> Are you using "make zImage" ?
>>
>> The proper uImage after that command would be smth like cuImage* then...
>>
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Please, apply clean patches (not filtered by web filters) and
try make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=<cross_prefix> zImage
The image should be at arch/powerpc/boot/cuImage.sequoia



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