Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai on Gumstix

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Sebastien.Berruer@domain.hid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a student and I work on a project to get Xenomai running on a
> gumstix platform. I'm using a Verdex board and OpenEmbedded as my
> development environment. Prior to re-flashing the board, I'm testing
> the RAM image with Qemu.
> 
> I've patched the kernel with Adeos. I followed the instruction of
> Xenomai 2.4.3 for a linux kernel 2.6.24.

Please use the latest version from the 2.4 (stable) branch: Xenomai 2.4.6.1.

> 
> I've been careful to run the command :
> bitbake gumstix-kernel -c menuconfig
> to force the copy of
> ~/gumstix/gumstix-oe/tmp/work/gumstix-custom-verdex-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/gumstix-kernel-2.6.24-r1/linux-2.6.24/.config
> to
> ~/gumstix/gumstix-oe/user.collection/packages/linux/gumstix-kernel-2.6.24/gumstix-custom-verdex/defconfig
> 
> Then, I tried to recompile the kernel source code (without that
> bitbake unpacked the archive of the previous version)
> bitbake gumstix-kernel -f -c compile
> 
> And create the new images
> bitbake task-base-gumstix -c rebuild
> bitbake gumstix-basic-image -c rebuild
> 
> I've made an image of RAM with the dd command to run in Qemu. But,
> when I'm trying to boot this image, the boot stop and said me :
> Copying kernel to 0xa2000000 from 0x01f00000 (length 0x00100000)...done
> ## Booting image at a2000000 ...
>      Image Name:   Angstrom/2.6.24/gumstix-custom-v
>      Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>      Data Size:    1124960 Bytes =  1.1 MB
>      Load Address: a0008000
>      Entry Point:  a0008000
> OK
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> ran out of input data

It looks like a memory layout issue, such as the bootloader not copying
the kernel completely, or the places where the kernel is copied
overlapping with something else like an initrd.


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                                                 Gilles.