kernel panic on MPC8323 custom board

Dario Presti dario.pr at tiscali.it
Fri Jan 8 20:23:41 EST 2010



Scott Wood-2 wrote:
> 
> Dario Presti wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm working on MPC8323_rdb board whit 1 new flash device S29GL512P
>> instead
>> of original flash devices.
>> the bootloader is u-boot 1.1.6 (I know is too old and I'm going to
>> upgrade
>> it) and the kernel is 2.6.20.
> 
> 2.6.20 is also too old. :-)
> 
>> I did this modification to the bootloader to support new flash:
>> 
>> 1)I modified the board/mpc8323rdb/config.mk file to set TEXT_BASE from
>> 0xFE000000 TO  0xFC000000
>> 2)I modified the file /include/configs/MPC8323RDB.h: 
>> 
>> #define CFG_FLASH_BASE		0xFC000000	/* FLASH base address */ 
>> #define CFG_FLASH_SIZE		64	/* FLASH size is 64M */ 
>> #define CFG_LBLAWBAR0_PRELIM	CFG_FLASH_BASE	/* Window base at flash base
>> */
>> #define CFG_LBLAWAR0_PRELIM	0x80000019	/* 64MB window size */ 
>> #define CFG_OR0_PRELIM		0xfc006ff7	/* 64MB Flash size */ 
>> #define CFG_MAX_FLASH_BANKS	1		/* number of banks */
>> #define CFG_MAX_FLASH_SECT	512		/* sectors per device */ 
>> 
>> 3)I modify and recompiled .dts file 
>> 
>> flash at fc000000 {
>> 		device_type = "jedec-flash";
>> 		compatible = "direct-mapped";
>> 		probe-type = "CFI";
>> 		reg = <0xfc000000 0x1000000>;
>> 		bank-width = <0x2>;
>> 		partitions = <0x0 0x80001 0x80000 0x20000 0xa0000 0x180000 0x220000
>> 0xde0000>;
>> 		partition-names = "U-Boot", "dtb", "Kernel", "rootfs";
>> 	};
>> 
>> but the kernel find the flash at 0xFE000000 and the boot stop because
>> kernel
>> panic. The log is:
> 
> Is the kernel even using that node, or some other means to determine the 
> flash location?  The "MPC8323RDB Flash Bank 1" messages make me think 
> you've got a custom flash map driver.
> 
> -Scott
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> 

Thanks Scott, 
I did not find where the custom map flash driver is in the kernel source,
where it is?
How can I say to the kernel to use device tree instead of custom map of
flash?

Regards
Dario
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