From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:54:35 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] PowerPC Build Problem In-Reply-To: <52268480.1000606@rftechnology.com.au> References: <52268480.1000606@rftechnology.com.au> Message-ID: <20130904095435.2c1c78fc@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Jason Rennie, On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:53:20 +1000, Jason Rennie wrote: > I apologise if the question is inappropriate for this list but I know > everyone here is knowledgeable and you were very helpful last time > when I was having problems getting things to start and it turned out > to be an issue with the device tree. > > I'm using buildroot to build for an APC8272ADS chip with Intel/Sharp > Memory chips on board. That build of the kernel does appear to work > correctly the relevant portion is [...] > But when I try building it with the latest buildroot (2013.08) and I > configure the kernel (3.10.10) I get one of two things. If I don't > include specific settings to physmap then I get a kernel panic when > it can't mount the root filesystem as follows >From what you're telling us, it really looks like a kernel problem (either a configuration one, or a real problem in the kernel code). Since you're able to use a recent version of the kernel (3.10), it means that you can easily benefit from support from the kernel community. I would therefore recommend you to get in touch with the PowerPC kernel developers doing the support for this board/SoC and asking the question there. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com