kernel boot on mpc8245

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Thu Mar 6 04:17:57 EST 2003


My recommendation for a first step is to look at your printk data. You
didn't miss a flag, you're simply crapping out before the console is set
up to dump out the printk data.

Go into the System.map file associated with the kernel your running,
search for 'log_buf', subtract 0xc0000000 to get the physical addr of
'log_buf', hook up a BDI or something similar (and hopefully, your board
has an appropriate connector), and dump the [printk] data at that address.

Mark
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Yuji Nishimura wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was some experience for similar problem on past time. It was happened
>on kernel porting process (to other board).
>For my problem, It caused by ppc_md.calibrate_decr =
>todc_calibrate_decr; . i forgot to initialize external real time clock(
>so rtc was stopped). that means it does not work and stop on same
>point.... If you use another calibrate_decr (based on bus clock or
>another clock), maybe it caused by other problem...
>
>Best Regards,
>Yuji Nishimura - Tokyo, Japan.
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>emanuel stiebler wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>I have a board which is close to Sandpoints mpc8245 cpu board.
>>(using internal DUARTs, EPIC_MODE_SERIAL)
>>
>>Trying to get it working, I got until:
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>>Filename 'pImage'.
>>Load address: 0x1000000
>>Loading: ################################T ###################T
>>##############
>>###T
>>##############################################################
>>##T #########################
>>done
>>Bytes transferred = 801369 (c3a59 hex)
>>=> bootm 1000000
>>## Booting image at 01000000 ...
>>Image Name: Linux-2.4.20
>>Created: 2003-03-04 23:57:29 UTC
>>Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>>Data Size: 801305 Bytes = 782 kB = 0 MB
>>Load Address: 00000000
>>Entry Point: 00000000
>>Verifying Checksum ... OK
>>Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
>>id mach(): done
>>MMU:enter
>>MMU:hw init
>>MMU:mapin
>>MMU:mapin_ram done
>>MMU:setio
>>MMU:exit
>>setup_arch: enter
>>setup_arch: bootmem
>>mpc10x:enter
>>mpc10x:exit
>>arch: exit
>>openpic: enter
>>openpic: timer
>>openpic: external
>>openpic: spurious
>>openpic: exit
>>
>>
>>then it stops. Any idea what it is waiting for ?
>>
>>And another question, I don't see any of the "printk ()" outputs I put
>>in the code, did I missed a flag ?
>>
>>Cheers & thanks for any help
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