Xilinx board and NPTL support lockup

[Kevin Holland]

Thanks for your help.

This was a kernel setup issue, I had forgotten to strip the debug information out of my new libraries and my initramfs was too large.
I believe the zImage was decompressing onto itself, thats why it was stuck at the "now booting."  I probably could have fixed it by changing my boot link/load address in the kernel config but I just stripped the files and it booted fine after it was smaller.

Hope this helps out anybody else with similar problems.

Kevin
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From: John Bonesio [john.bonesio at xilinx.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:50 AM
To: Kevin Holland
Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Xilinx board and NPTL support lockup

Hi Kevin,

This doesn't look like an NPTL problem to me. It appears you have
rebuilt the kernel, and your new kernel has a problem booting on the
board. I would check the configuration options you have enabled in the
kernel, and I would check that xparameters.h (older kernel) or the
device-tree (newer kernel) is right for your hardware design.

If you haven't rebuilt the kernel, then I would check your setup.

- John

khollan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a board similar to the ml410, its been running a linux kernel happily
> for about a year now, but now the firmware guys want NPTL threading instead
> of the linuxthread library.
> I recompiled my gcc 4.0.2 and glibc 2.3.6 library with the NPTL support, and
> recompiled my kernel with the new tools.
>
> Now my kernel gets stuck at the infamous "Now Booting the Kernel" message.
>
> Any thoughts on why this might be happening, or how to verify that my glibc
> and gcc are functional other than trying to compile things with them (I know
> this works).
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>

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