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From: ajaynumb@gmail.com (Ajay kumar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Unable to boot mainline on snow chromebook since 3.15
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 19:16:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEC9eQOMd7ME5KiG2QHCf3TMJAwSxLUgGpmFrpw_HQT4me9YWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140905122232.GP13515@arm.com>

Hi Will,

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> [Looks like it's not just Rutland that can't spell the address of the
>  mailing list today. Fixed here, so please use this post in any replies].
>
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:57:04PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm one of the few, foolish people to try running mainline on my 5250-based
>> Samsung Chromebook (snow). I can live without wireless, usb3 and video
>> acceleration, so actually it makes a reasonable development platform for
>> doing A15-based (micro)-architectural work.
>>
>> However, since 3.15 I've not been able to boot *any* mainline kernels on
>> this board. I did mean to report this earlier, but I have other machines
>> that can run mainline so this has fallen by the wayside.
>>
>> The problems started with 3.16, where simple-fb would fail to initialise
>> and I lost my display. Note that I don't have a serial console on this
>> machine (I looked at the PCB and there's no way I can solder one of those
>> myself :) I bisected the issue at the time, and I could get my display back
>> by removing some of the new regulator and hdmi properties from the DT. At
>> that point, I could boot, but DMA didn't initialise for the MMC controller
>> so I couldn't mount my root filesystem.
>>http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg66740.html
>> With 3.17-rc3, it seems a lot worse -- I don't get any output after nv-uboot
>> (i.e. the nv-uboot screen just remains on the display, with the last line
>> reading "Stashed 20 records").
>>
>> I'd usually try to debug this a bit further, but without a console it's
>> really painful to get anywhere. I've been working with 3.15, but now I'm
>> having to backport patches when I want to test them, which is more effort
>> than I can be bothered with.
>>
>> Is anybody else running mainline on this device and are these known/fixed
>> problems?
AFAIK, ARM chromebooks use DRM based display drivers and the required
patches are still not merged:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg66740.html

Corresponding DT patches are also still not merged:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg358324.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg358325.html

There is a patch for configs as well:
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-samsung-soc at vger.kernel.org/msg35828.html

Try these patches(I hope they will apply directly on 3.17-rc3) and you should
be able to use display on snow.

Ajay

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-05 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20140905115704.GO13515@arm.com>
2014-09-05 12:22 ` Unable to boot mainline on snow chromebook since 3.15 Will Deacon
2014-09-05 13:46   ` Ajay kumar [this message]
2014-09-05 13:56     ` Vivek Gautam
2014-09-08 11:17       ` Will Deacon
2014-09-05 14:12     ` Marc Zyngier
2014-09-05 20:25   ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-07  9:06     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-07 15:01       ` Mark Brown
2014-09-07 15:51         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-07 15:52       ` Tomasz Figa
2014-09-07 16:12         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-07 16:19           ` Tomasz Figa
2014-09-07 16:40             ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-08 11:21             ` Will Deacon
2014-09-08 11:55               ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-08 12:46                 ` Will Deacon
2014-09-08 12:20               ` Grant Likely
2014-09-08 13:49                 ` Mark Brown
2014-09-08 14:05                   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-10 11:17                     ` Will Deacon
2014-09-10 16:03                       ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-10 16:23                         ` Will Deacon
2014-09-08 15:58                 ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-08 19:40                   ` Grant Likely
2014-09-10 13:06                     ` Olof Johansson
2014-09-10 14:31                       ` Mark Brown
2014-09-10 14:56                         ` Grant Likely
2014-09-10 15:39                           ` Mark Brown
2014-09-10 16:29                             ` Grant Likely
2014-09-10 16:45                               ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-10 19:45                                 ` Mark Brown
2014-09-10 19:51                                   ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-10 16:57                               ` Mark Brown
2014-09-11  9:22                                 ` Grant Likely
2014-09-11 18:03                                   ` Mark Brown
2014-09-11 22:54                                     ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-29 12:57                           ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-29 13:12                             ` Grant Likely
2014-09-29 16:37                               ` Mark Brown
2014-09-30  6:12                               ` Thierry Reding
2014-09-29 20:46                             ` Maxime Ripard
2014-09-10 16:36                         ` Olof Johansson
2014-09-10 18:17                           ` Mark Brown
2014-09-11  9:06                         ` Grant Likely
2014-09-11 16:16                           ` Mark Brown
2014-09-08  4:36         ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-08  6:09           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-09-08 15:55             ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-08 16:07               ` Will Deacon
2014-09-08 16:12                 ` Doug Anderson
2014-09-08 10:20           ` Mark Brown
2014-09-08  4:43         ` Doug Anderson
2015-01-30  4:56 bruce m beach

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