[patch v2 3/3] kirkwood: Add iconnect support

[arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org (Arnaud Patard (Rtp))]

Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk> writes:

Hi,

> On Wednesday 18 April 2012, Arnaud Patard wrote:
>> Add support for Iomega Iconnect system.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
>> 
>
> Arnaud,
>
> I have so far been unable to get a kernel to boot with your patches. I just 
> get
>  
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

hm. sounds weird. Are you sure that you have the DTB appended to your
kernel image ?

>
> then nothing even with earlyprintk in the cmd line.
>
> I applied the patches to a recent clone of Linus' tree as they depend on other 
> device tree work that isn't in the latest stable kernel - I haven't yet 
> verified if that tree boots as if it were a RD88F6281 with your changes 
> disabled so that is probably my next step.

With device-tree, you don't have to worry with your machine number.

>
> I've also hit the issue of the stock U-Boot not supporting DTB so am running 
> with
> CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB=y
> CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT=y
> Have you been using the latter option or are you just using the settings in 
> your dtb file? I'm assuming that you are running with an initrd, so far I've 

It depends on what your boot media is. For instance if you boot your
kernel and the rootfs on usb and necessary modules built-in you can boot
directly with things like root=/dev/sdaX rootwait.

> been trying to run without one hence I was hoping to be able to set the rootfs 
> location on the kernel command line.

either you use ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT and set the command line on from
uboot or you don't set it and set the command line from the dts file.

Arnaud