porting linux 2.6.27 to embedded powerpc board

Laxmikant Rashinkar lk.atwork at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 23 05:57:16 EST 2008


Hi,

my .dts file is called mpc834x_mds.dts. (My processor is MPC8347)
Here are its contents.

/*
 * MPC8349E MDS Device Tree Source
 *
 * Copyright 2005, 2006 Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute  it and/or modify it
 * under  the terms of  the GNU General  Public License as published by the
 * Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the  License, or (at your
 * option) any later version.
 */

/dts-v1/;

/ {
        model = "MPC8349EMDS";
        compatible = "MPC8349EMDS", "MPC834xMDS", "MPC83xxMDS";
        #address-cells = <1>;
        #size-cells = <1>;

        aliases {
                ethernet0 = &enet0;
                ethernet1 = &enet1;
                serial0 = &serial0;
                serial1 = &serial1;
                pci0 = &pci0;
                pci1 = &pci1;
        };

        cpus {
                #address-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <0>;

                PowerPC,8349 at 0 {
                        device_type = "cpu";
                        reg = <0x0>;
                        d-cache-line-size = <32>;
                        i-cache-line-size = <32>;
                        d-cache-size = <32768>;
                        i-cache-size = <32768>;
                        timebase-frequency = <0>;       // from bootloader
                        bus-frequency = <0>;            // from bootloader
                        clock-frequency = <0>;          // from bootloader
                };
        };

        memory {
                device_type = "memory";
                reg = <0x00000000 0x10000000>;  // 256MB at 0
        };

        bcsr at e2400000 {
                device_type = "board-control";
                reg = <0xe2400000 0x8000>;
        };

        soc8349 at e0000000 {
                #address-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <1>;
                device_type = "soc";
                compatible = "simple-bus";
                ranges = <0x0 0xe0000000 0x00100000>;
                reg = <0xe0000000 0x00000200>;
                bus-frequency = <0>;

                wdt at 200 {
                        device_type = "watchdog";
                        compatible = "mpc83xx_wdt";
                        reg = <0x200 0x100>;
                };

                i2c at 3000 {
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <0>;
                        cell-index = <0>;
                        compatible = "fsl-i2c";
                        reg = <0x3000 0x100>;
                        interrupts = <14 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        dfsrr;

                        rtc at 68 {
                                compatible = "dallas,ds1374";
                                reg = <0x68>;
                        };
                };

                i2c at 3100 {
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <0>;
                        cell-index = <1>;
                        compatible = "fsl-i2c";
                        reg = <0x3100 0x100>;
                        interrupts = <15 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        dfsrr;
                };

                spi at 7000 {
                        cell-index = <0>;
                        compatible = "fsl,spi";
                        reg = <0x7000 0x1000>;
                        interrupts = <16 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        mode = "cpu";
                };

                dma at 82a8 {
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <1>;
                        compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-dma", "fsl,elo-dma";
                        reg = <0x82a8 4>;
                        ranges = <0 0x8100 0x1a8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        interrupts = <71 8>;
                        cell-index = <0>;
                        dma-channel at 0 {
                                compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-dma-channel", "fsl,elo-dma-channel";
                                reg = <0 0x80>;
                                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                                interrupts = <71 8>;
                        };
                        dma-channel at 80 {
                                compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-dma-channel", "fsl,elo-dma-channel";
                                reg = <0x80 0x80>;
                                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                                interrupts = <71 8>;
                        };
                        dma-channel at 100 {
                                compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-dma-channel", "fsl,elo-dma-channel";
                                reg = <0x100 0x80>;
                                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                                interrupts = <71 8>;
                        };
                        dma-channel at 180 {
                                compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-dma-channel", "fsl,elo-dma-channel";
                                reg = <0x180 0x28>;
                                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                                interrupts = <71 8>;
                        };
                };

                /* phy type (ULPI or SERIAL) are only types supported for MPH */
                /* port = 0 or 1 */
                usb at 22000 {
                        compatible = "fsl-usb2-mph";
                        reg = <0x22000 0x1000>;
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <0>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        interrupts = <39 0x8>;
                        phy_type = "ulpi";
                        port1;
                };
                /* phy type (ULPI, UTMI, UTMI_WIDE, SERIAL) */
                usb at 23000 {
                        compatible = "fsl-usb2-dr";
                        reg = <0x23000 0x1000>;
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <0>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        interrupts = <38 0x8>;
                        dr_mode = "otg";
                        phy_type = "ulpi";
                };

                mdio at 24520 {
                        #address-cells = <1>;
                        #size-cells = <0>;
                        compatible = "fsl,gianfar-mdio";
                        reg = <0x24520 0x20>;

                        phy0: ethernet-phy at 0 {
                                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                                interrupts = <17 0x8>;
                                reg = <0x0>;
                                device_type = "ethernet-phy";
                        };
                        phy1: ethernet-phy at 1 {
                                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                                interrupts = <18 0x8>;
                                reg = <0x1>;
                                device_type = "ethernet-phy";
                        };
                };

                enet0: ethernet at 24000 {
                        cell-index = <0>;
                        device_type = "network";
                        model = "TSEC";
                        compatible = "gianfar";
                        reg = <0x24000 0x1000>;
                        local-mac-address = [ 00 00 00 00 00 00 ];
                        interrupts = <32 0x8 33 0x8 34 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        phy-handle = <&phy0>;
                        linux,network-index = <0>;
                };

                enet1: ethernet at 25000 {
                        cell-index = <1>;
                        device_type = "network";
                        model = "TSEC";
                        compatible = "gianfar";
                        reg = <0x25000 0x1000>;
                        local-mac-address = [ 00 00 00 00 00 00 ];
                        interrupts = <35 0x8 36 0x8 37 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        phy-handle = <&phy1>;
                        linux,network-index = <1>;
                };

                serial0: serial at 4500 {
                        cell-index = <0>;
                        device_type = "serial";
                        compatible = "ns16550";
                        reg = <0x4500 0x100>;
                        clock-frequency = <0>;
                        interrupts = <9 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                };

                serial1: serial at 4600 {
                        cell-index = <1>;
                        device_type = "serial";
                        compatible = "ns16550";
                        reg = <0x4600 0x100>;
                        clock-frequency = <0>;
                        interrupts = <10 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                };

                crypto at 30000 {
                        compatible = "fsl,sec2.0";
                        reg = <0x30000 0x10000>;
                        interrupts = <11 0x8>;
                        interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                        fsl,num-channels = <4>;
                        fsl,channel-fifo-len = <24>;
                        fsl,exec-units-mask = <0x7e>;
                        fsl,descriptor-types-mask = <0x01010ebf>;
                };

                /* IPIC
                 * interrupts cell = <intr #, sense>
                 * sense values match linux IORESOURCE_IRQ_* defines:
                 * sense == 8: Level, low assertion
                 * sense == 2: Edge, high-to-low change
                 */
                ipic: pic at 700 {
                        interrupt-controller;
                        #address-cells = <0>;
                        #interrupt-cells = <2>;
                        reg = <0x700 0x100>;
                        device_type = "ipic";
                };
        };

        pci0: pci at e0008500 {
                cell-index = <1>;
                interrupt-map-mask = <0xf800 0x0 0x0 0x7>;
                interrupt-map = <

                                /* IDSEL 0x11 */
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 23 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x12 */
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 21 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x13 */
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 22 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x15 */
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 23 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x16 */
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 22 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x17 */
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 21 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x18 */
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 20 0x8>;
                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                interrupts = <66 0x8>;
                bus-range = <0 0>;
                ranges = <0x02000000 0x0 0x90000000 0x90000000 0x0 0x10000000
                          0x42000000 0x0 0x80000000 0x80000000 0x0 0x10000000
                          0x01000000 0x0 0x00000000 0xe2000000 0x0 0x00100000>;
                clock-frequency = <66666666>;
                #interrupt-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <2>;
                #address-cells = <3>;
                reg = <0xe0008500 0x100>;
                compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-pci";
                device_type = "pci";
        };

        pci1: pci at e0008600 {
                cell-index = <2>;
                interrupt-map-mask = <0xf800 0x0 0x0 0x7>;
                interrupt-map = <

                                /* IDSEL 0x11 */
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0x8800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 23 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x12 */
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0x9000 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 21 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x13 */
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0x9800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 22 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x15 */
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0xa800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 23 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x16 */
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0xb000 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 22 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x17 */
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 20 0x8
                                 0xb800 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 21 0x8

                                /* IDSEL 0x18 */
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x1 &ipic 21 0x8
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x2 &ipic 22 0x8
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x3 &ipic 23 0x8
                                 0xc000 0x0 0x0 0x4 &ipic 20 0x8>;
                interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
                interrupts = <67 0x8>;
                bus-range = <0 0>;
                ranges = <0x02000000 0x0 0xb0000000 0xb0000000 0x0 0x10000000
                          0x42000000 0x0 0xa0000000 0xa0000000 0x0 0x10000000
                          0x01000000 0x0 0x00000000 0xe2100000 0x0 0x00100000>;
                clock-frequency = <66666666>;
                #interrupt-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <2>;
                #address-cells = <3>;
                reg = <0xe0008600 0x100>;
                compatible = "fsl,mpc8349-pci";
                device_type = "pci";
        };
};


thanks
LK




----- Original Message ----
From: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
To: Laxmikant Rashinkar <lk.atwork at yahoo.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:45:54 PM
Subject: Re: porting linux 2.6.27 to embedded powerpc board

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Laxmikant Rashinkar
<lk.atwork at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I still haven't gotten anything to work :-(
>
> I'm using Uboot 1.1.4 and Linux 2.6.27 but instead of using uImage, I'm
> using cuImage.<myboard>
> The args to dtc are as listed by David Jander

Please post you .dts file and the filename you are using for it.

g.

>
> My cmd line args are:
> setenv bootargs root=/dev/ram0 init=/rescue rw console=ttyS0,9600
> ramdisk_size=65536
>
> When I attempt to boot my image it just hangs w/o any output. I dearly wish
> I could get some console output.
> Here is the actual display from uboot:
>
> ## Booting image at 00800000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.27-rc2
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1640425 Bytes =  1.6 MB
>    Load Address: 00400000
>    Entry Point:  0040055c
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
> ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 01000000 ...
>    Image Name:   flash_root.ext3.gz
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    13450106 Bytes = 12.8 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Loading Ramdisk to 0f29d000, end 0ff70b7a ... OK
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) the load address and entry point for the kernel (see above) are non-zero.
> When we load via uImage, they are always zero. Is this normal? dtc has not
> options to set the load address and entry point.
>
> 2) When I build my kernel, I get two warnings. Could these be causing a
> problem?
>
> WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.data+0x8ec): Section mismatch in reference from the
> variable contig_page_data to the variable .init.data:bootmem_node_data
> The variable contig_page_data references
> the variable __initdata bootmem_node_data
> If the reference is valid then annotate the
> variable with __init* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
> *driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,
>
>
>   MODPOST vmlinux.o
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0xfe74): Section mismatch in reference from the
> variable contig_page_data to the variable .init.data:bootmem_node_data
> The variable contig_page_data references
> the variable __initdata bootmem_node_data
> If the reference is valid then annotate the
> variable with __init* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
> *driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,
>
> thanks so much for your help.
>
> LK
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Jander <david.jander at protonic.nl>
> To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> Cc: Laxmikant Rashinkar <lk.atwork at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:43:45 AM
> Subject: Re: porting linux 2.6.27 to embedded powerpc board
>
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 01:24:46 Laxmikant Rashinkar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an embedded PowerPC (MPC8347) board that works fine with uboot and
>> Linux 2.6.15.
>>
>> I am trying to upgrade the kernel so that it runs on the latest release -
>> Linux 2.6.27. So far, I have gotten the kernel to compile on my platform,
>> but of course it does not boot.
>
> Well, honestly I don't know where to look for information either (other than
> the source-code and examples from others), but here is a list with points to
> look out for (I have just done the same thing as you for a MPC5200B-based
> board):
>
> 1. Upgrade to latest u-boot first (recent git seems to be fine). There have
> been a lot of changes in u-boot lately about OF and device-tree related
> things. I suspect you need a fairly recent version of u-boot to go well with
> the latest kernel. It's also generally a good idea IMHO.
>
> 2. I assume you are porting to arch/powerpc (the old arch/ppc you used back
> in
> 2.6.15 is obsolete and broken now).
>
> 3. Look at other platforms that use the same processor, and pick a simple
> one
> as starting point. Look out for the dts (device-tree-source file in
> arch/powerpc/boot/dts), copy and modify one to reflect your hardware.
> Recently a lot of changes happend in the kernel, changing device names,
> obsoleting "device-type" tags, etc..., so some of the current DTS sources
> included in the kernel might not even work (wrong device name, missing
> information, wrong use of "device-type", etc...), so watch out for these
> kind
> of issues too.
>
> 4. Be sure that the device(s) necessary to produce output on your console
> are
> correctly placed in the DT. Also make sure that u-boot knows about it
> (#define OF_STDOUT_PATH... in your u-boot board config file)
>
> 5. When compiling the device tree, it may be necessary to add some extra
> reserved entries to the compiled tree (I am using dtc -p 10240 -R 20, which
> might be slightly exaggerated), because u-boot may add something to it, and
> if it can't, linux won't boot.
>
> 6. Remember to always specify the "rootfstype=" option on the commandline if
> booting from anything other than NFS. This was not necessary back in the
> 2.6.15-times AFAICR.
>
> 7. Boot with a device-tree (in u-boot: "bootm $addrofkernel - $addrofdtb",
> don't forget the dash if you are not using an initrd). If you don't do this,
> u-boot can't fix your DT, and the kernel probably won't find it either.
>
> 8. Be sure to use the correct version of the DTC (DT compiler) for your
> kernel
> (the sources are included nowadays, somewhere in arch/powerpc/boot IIRC).
> The
> command used to compile, should probably be something like this:
>
> $ ./dtc -p 10240 -R 20 -I dts -o myplatform.dtb -O dtb -b 0
> dts/myplatform.dts
>
> Load the resulting .dtb file directly with u-boot (don't make an u-image out
> of it).
>
> That's all I remember right now... hope it helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> David Jander
>
>
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-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.



      
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