[U-Boot] having trouble booting a simple kernel on a TQM860 board

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 12/02/2011 05:19 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   and, at this point, i would think that all i need to do is:
> 
> => bootm 400000
> ## Booting image at 00400000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.37
>    Created:      2011-12-02  23:08:06 UTC
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1301506 Bytes =  1.2 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

You need to use a cuImage, just as you did with lite5200.

Or update U-Boot and pass a device tree.

> and that's where it hangs.
> 
>   i have no idea if it's still booting properly but i've simply
> screwed up the serial port setting.
> 
>   does this set of steps look reasonable?  the configuration, the
> building, the TFTP, the verification steps, the "bootm" command?  this
> is what's printed when the board resets:
> 
> U-Boot 0.4.0 (Apr 13 2004 - 15:01:22)
> 
> CPU:   XPC860xxZPnnD4 at 80 MHz: 16 kB I-Cache 8 kB D-Cache FEC
> present
> Board: TQM860LDB0A3-P80.208
> DRAM:  16 MB
> FLASH:  8 MB
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   SCC ETHERNET [PRIME], FEC ETHERNET
> PCMCIA:   No Card found
> 
>   am i just missing something obvious?  what should i use for the
> kernel console setting?  i'm open to suggestions.

console=ttyCPM0

-Scott