Kilauea: kernel hangs when using ARCH=powerpc

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Apr 7 23:23:13 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:03 +0200, Bernhard Weirich wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> When I build the kernel for my kilauea board using ARCH=ppc everything
> works fine.
> Since ppc is deprecated I'd like to switch to powerpc, but if I do so
> the kernel does not produce any output.
> There is just the last line of the prompt from the bootloader.
> In both cases I built with kilauea_defconfig
> 
> I tried the Denx ELDK (4.2) compiler 4.2.2, the toolchain generated by
> Buildroot and different kernel versions from the denx repository.
> The Kilauea board is Version 1.11b.
> 
> Any ideas what is going wrong?

You need to be sure to load the device tree blob in U-Boot, and ensure
that your bootargs environment variable contains the proper values for
console.

josh




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