Failure to boot...

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 06:19:59PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On Thursday 31 January 2013 04:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:20:24AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>>> Better yet (IMHO): just enable the zboot command in U-Boot to let you
>>>> boot a zImage binary directly.
>>>
>>> I wish it were that easy but it isn't.  I've no idea where to get a
>>> version of uboot for my boards which supports that; TI have always
>>> supplied updates to uboot for me, and with the current state of TI
>>> being afaict in chaos.
>>>
>>> TI have always supplied a replacement X-Loader with each uboot update.
>>> I've no idea what X-Loader is or why both get updated together, but...
>>>
>>> Moreover, I doubt that the 3430LDP, of which there are multiple versions,
>>> will ever see a uboot update.  It already suffers from a lack of correct
>>> kernel support due to random wiring changes between these versions (the
>>> keypad doesn't work correctly) and I've yet to indentify which version
>>> it is despite downloading the circuits.  So trying to locate the right
>>> uboot will be impossible there.
>>>
>>> So, I'm _stuck_ with uImages for these platforms.
>>
>> Right, so I'm now passing LOADADDR= which allows this to work - and the
>> latest OMAP4430SDP boot result shows almost the same sad broken story.
>>
> I just tried latest mainline (commit: 04c2eee5) and default config
> just boots fine.

Please read the notes at the bottom of the page, specifically:
 *?Build tree is currently created on an ad-hoc basis from Linus' tip, rmk's
   development tip and arm-soc for-next branches.

This system does *not* build and boot vanilla mainline kernels.  It is
(as the above says):

- Linus' tip
- My for-next plus a few other bits
- arm-soc for-next

all merged together.

Here's the diffstat between my for-next and the remainder of other stuff
that gets built:

 arch/arm/mach-realview/core.c                   |  212 ++++++++
 arch/arm/mach-realview/core.h                   |    2 +
 arch/arm/mach-realview/include/mach/platform.h  |    2 +
 arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_eb.c            |   37 ++-
 arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb11mp.c        |   33 ++-
 arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pba8.c          |    3 +-
 arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pbx.c           |    3 +-
 arch/arm/mach-versatile/core.c                  |  482 ++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/arm/mach-versatile/include/mach/platform.h |    6 +
 arch/arm/mach-versatile/versatile_pb.c          |   17 +-
 drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c                        |   26 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c                |   30 ++
 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c                |   23 +-
 include/linux/serial_core.h                     |    2 +
 include/sound/soc-dmaengine.h                   |   26 +
 sound/soc/Kconfig                               |    5 +
 sound/soc/Makefile                              |    3 +
 sound/soc/sa11x0/Kconfig                        |   14 +
 sound/soc/sa11x0/Makefile                       |    5 +
 sound/soc/sa11x0/sa11x0-assabet.c               |  432 +++++++++++++++++
 sound/soc/sa11x0/sa11x0-ssp.c                   |  345 +++++++++++++
 sound/soc/sa11x0/sa11x0-ssp.h                   |   11 +
 sound/soc/soc-dmaengine.c                       |  591 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 23 files changed, 2283 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

As far as OMAP goes, that's basically additional bits for serial DMA
support that I was working on, best pieced back together before the
serial driver was majorly reworked a couple of merge windows ago.
These have been there for at least the last three months.

The rest are for SA11x0 Assabet sound support, and DMA support on
Versatile/Realview platforms.

> I was looking at your build system output which shows the boot
> state "OMAP4430 SDP: fail". Your config seems to be with
> CONFIG_ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM=y and indeed this kernel doesn't
> boot. Seems to abort very early in boot. Am looking at it.

Thanks.

> P.S Btw, the load address issue with multi-platform build
> was highlighted on the list in past by Tony [1]
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg84146.html

That's no good to me if it only goes to linux-omap.