Problem dtb file booting Kernel 2.6.32

Hunter Cobbs hunter.cobbs at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 14:59:24 EST 2010


Hi,

If you're going to attempt to use v1 dts, you might want to try to add


 * option) any later version.
 */

/dts-v1/;

/ {

to your DTS file.  Also, you'll want to prefix all of your hex addresses
with "0x"  so, 200000 = 0x200000

Hope that helps,
Hunter


On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:30 -0500, Andres F Marquez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was able to boot Kernel 2.6.26.8 (using our old dts file from 
> Kernel 2.6.25). However, I need to upgrade to a newer Kernel because
> I am having serious problems with the ethernet interface under heavy
> load. I am not sure if it could be a scheduling problem or the network
> driver. CPU usage is low but load average is high (more than 4).
> 
> The main difference that I could find is that for newer Kernels the 
> /arch/ppc was removed. I also read online that dts version changed 
> from 0 to 1 somewhere around Kernel 2.6.27 or so.
> 
> Following your instruction, I executed in the LTIB command shell:
> 
> LTIB> dtc -I dtb -O dts ../mpc8272ads.dtb
> 
> I executed that command passing as argument the old working dtb file.
> I got a dts file which I placed in the new Kernel and compiled.
> Unfortunately, I am still getting the same error.
> 
> Attached you can find both dts files.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
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