From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Schwarz Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:37:09 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V9 0/4] SPL Linux boot In-Reply-To: <4EDF8BD0.6020906@denx.de> References: <1323193179-9551-1-git-send-email-simonschwarzcor@gmail.com> <1323196478-14254-1-git-send-email-simonschwarzcor@gmail.com> <4EDF8BD0.6020906@denx.de> Message-ID: <4EDFA445.1020907@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 12/07/2011 04:52 PM, Stefano Babic wrote: > On 06/12/2011 19:34, Simon Schwarz wrote: >> Adds direct Linux boot to SPL. It implements a spl export command to save >> ATAGS or FDT to NAND flash. The kernel image has to be in place for this! >> >> Changes in V5: >> - Rebased on u-boot-ti >> - fixed MAKEALL warnings and errors >> - adapted to general gpio interface >> Changes in V6: >> - Change old commit message >> >> Changes in V7: >> - Correct style and format errors >> >> Changes in V8: >> - rebased on u-boot >> >> Changes in V9: >> - Deleted a left-over patch from the series this also fixed the first >> problem mentioned here: >> - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/119452 >> >> based on: >> - Prep subcommand patch for arm >> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/106725) > > Hi Simon, > > I am testing your patches (V9) - the kernel image is not corrupted > anynmore due to the ECC, but I am not able to boot successfully the > kernel. I am testing now with a second hardware (twister, I have > recently posted the patches for this board, also OMAP3) to have a > comparison with the beagleboard. > > The kernel starts but it stops very soon, I think after the machine-id > check and it seems it cannot poarse correctly the tags. However, the > parameters exported by "spl export" are correct and I have not found any > difference with the "bootm" command under U-boot. > > I am starting to debug the kernel to get some more infos, but do you > have some hints ? How do you test it ? > > Best regards, > Stefano Babic > Hi Stefano, great that someone has a closer look on this! The only problem i had was a wrong machine id (The one to use is defined in the board config file). So I didn't do any debugging in the kernel besides from activating early printk. Regards Simon