[cip-dev] B@D support Renesas iwg20m board - issue

[agustin.benito@codethink.co.uk (Agustin Benito Bethencourt)]

Hi,

On 26/09/17 11:49, Daniel Sangorrin wrote:
> Hi Binh, Robert, Everyone
>
> I have Project-X for iwg20m working with LAVA 2017.7 (boot test and a simple uname test so far).
> # I will send the patches another day.
>
> Robert: do you have plans to update to 2017.9?

We will not before ELCE. We will concentrate on properly releasing what 
we currently have for the event.

>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Binh Thanh. Nguyen [mailto:binh.nguyen.uw at rvc.renesas.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:30 PM
>> To: Chris Paterson; Daniel Sangorrin; 'cip dev'
>> Cc: O365-Toru Oishi
>> Subject: RE: [cip-dev] B at D support Renesas iwg20m board - issue
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Chris Paterson [mailto:Chris.Paterson2 at renesas.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:29 PM
>>> To: Daniel Sangorrin <daniel.sangorrin@toshiba.co.jp>; Binh Thanh. Nguyen
>>> <binh.nguyen.uw@rvc.renesas.com>; 'cip dev' <cip-dev@lists.cip-
>>> project.org>
>>> Cc: O365-Toru Oishi <toru.oishi.zj@renesas.com>
>>> Subject: RE: [cip-dev] B at D support Renesas iwg20m board - issue
>>>
>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>
>>>> From: cip-dev-bounces at lists.cip-project.org [mailto:cip-dev-
>>>> bounces at lists.cip-project.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Sangorrin
>>>> Sent: 20 September 2017 08:14
>>>>
>>>> Hi Binh,
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: cip-dev-bounces at lists.cip-project.org
>>>>> [mailto:cip-dev-bounces at lists.cip-project.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
>>>>> Sangorrin
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:40 PM
>>>>> To: 'Binh Thanh. Nguyen'; 'cip dev'
>>>>> Cc: 'O365-Toru Oishi'
>>>>> Subject: Re: [cip-dev] B at D support Renesas iwg20m board - issue
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Binh,
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Binh Thanh. Nguyen [mailto:binh.nguyen.uw at rvc.renesas.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 8:46 PM
>>>>>> To: Daniel Sangorrin; 'cip dev'
>>>>>> Cc: O365-Toru Oishi
>>>>>> Subject: RE: [cip-dev] B at D support Renesas iwg20m board - issue
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry for late reply. I got few days off for some reasons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Daniel Sangorrin [mailto:daniel.sangorrin at toshiba.co.jp]
>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 8:36 AM
>>>>>>> To: Binh Thanh. Nguyen <binh.nguyen.uw@rvc.renesas.com>; 'cip
>>> dev'
>>>>>>> <cip- dev@lists.cip-project.org>
>>>>>>> Cc: O365-Toru Oishi <toru.oishi.zj@renesas.com>
>>>>>>> Subject: RE: [cip-dev] B at D support Renesas iwg20m board - issue
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Binh,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Binh Thanh. Nguyen
>>>> [mailto:binh.nguyen.uw at rvc.renesas.com]
>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:00 PM
>>>>>>>>> Any updates on this topic?
>>>>>>>> I have no update. I was busy with other tasks with high
>>>>>>>> priority. I will
>>>>>>> manage to back to this task from next week.
>>>>>>>> I will let you know if there is any update.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK, I'm working on it now. There were several problems with your
>>>>>>> patches and we are upgrading to LAVA 2017.7.
>>>>>>> Before you start please let me know so we don't overlap.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is great to know that. Thank you for your work on Renesas board.
>>>>>> I will back to this task next week, if possible please let me know
>>>>>> your
>>>> status, anything need my support please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am preparing the board to boot from the network (tftp), both the
>>>>> kernel
>>>> and the Project-X file system (a ramdisk).
>>>>> Currently the kernel boots fine, but no login console appears.
>>>>> # Note, the same file system installed on the SD Card has no
>>>>> problems
>>>>>
>>>>> This are a few things I had to modify:
>>>>> - kernel configuration
>>>>>     CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
>>>>>     CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=8
>>>>>     CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=102400
>>>>>
>>>>> - ramdisk
>>>>>      # mkdir ramdisk
>>>>>      # cd ramdisk/
>>>>>      # tar xvf ../iwg20m/core-image-minimal-iwg20m.tar.gz
>>>>>      # ln -s /sbin/init .
>>>>>      # find . | cpio --create --format='newc' > /tmp/newinitrd
>>>>>      # gzip /tmp/newinitrd
>>>>>      # mkimage  -A arm -T ramdisk -C gzip -d /tmp/newinitrd.gz uRamdisk
>>>>>      # mv uRamdisk /var/lib/tftpboot/
>>>>>
>>>>> - u-boot settings
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > setenv ramdisk_addr 0x41000000
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > setenv ramdisk_file uRamdisk
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > setenv bootm_low 0x44000000
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > setenv bootm_size 0x3000000
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > setenv bootargs_ramdisk setenv bootargs
>>>> ${bootargs_base} root=/dev/ram rootwait rw
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > setenv bootcmd_tftpboot 'run bootargs_ramdisk;run
>>>>> fdt_check;tftpboot ${loadaddr} ${kernel};tftpboot ${fdt_addr}
>>>> ${fdt_file};tftpboot ${ramdisk_addr} ${ramdisk_file};bootm ${loadaddr}
>>>> ${ramdisk_addr} ${fdt_addr}'
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > saveenv
>>>>>        iWave-G20M > run bootcmd_tftpboot
>>>>>
>>>>> I send you the bootlog attached as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have any hint about the possible solution please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> OK, I solved it.
>>>> It seems that the dev folder wasn't being populated properly on the
>>>> ramdisk so I made it work with mdev.
>>>>
>>>> Now that I have a network deployment environment I will try running a
>>>> test on LAVA and see if it works this time.
>>
>> It is great that you could fix the issue.
>> Hope that your test run well. if you meet other issue and need my support, please let me know.
>>
>>>
>>> I'm glad that you managed to resolve the problem. Thank you for the update.
>>>
>>> Kind regards, Chris
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Binh Nguyen
>
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