RE: 4430SDP boot failure

Santosh Shilimkar
2011-01-07T08:39:20Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux [mailto:linux@arm.linux.org.uk]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 5:22 AM
> To: Santosh Shilimkar
> Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; Tony Lindgren
> Subject: Re: 4430SDP boot failure

[..]
>
>
> OMAP44XX SDP # fatls mmc 0
>
> 1935000 uimage
> 149104 u-boot.bin
> 18984 mlo
> 1836636 uimage-test
> 1130288 uimage-ss
> 19040 mlo.old
> Invalid FAT entry
>
> 6 file(s), 0 dir(s)
>
> "Invalid FAT entry" ? I don't think so. The thing actually
> contains:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 rmk rmk 1935000 Feb 4 2010 uImage
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 rmk rmk 149104 Feb 4 2010 u-boot.bin
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 rmk rmk 18984 Jan 1 2000 mlo
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 rmk rmk 1836636 Jan 6 21:35 uImage-test
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 rmk rmk 1130288 Jan 1 2000 uImage-ss
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 rmk rmk 19040 Feb 4 2010 mlo.old
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 rmk rmk 154904 Jan 1 2000 u-boot.new
>

[..]

> So, uboot's FAT code can't deal with a directory larger than one
> sector
> that doesn't continue. While we're here, lets confirm by hand that
> there's nothing wrong with the uImage-test file and it's yet again
> uboot
> being idiotic.
>

[..]

> Can we _please_ have a version of uboot for the SDP4430 platform
> which
> can be configured at runtime _and_ which is capable of DHCP/TFTP ?
> I really don't want to mess about anymore with buggy boot loaders.
Just read this thread. Looks like you are not able to boot the kernel
at all. 2.6.37 + Tony's queue booted for me without any issues.

I can give a try on 2.6.37.

TFTP is already supported on the latest bootloaders.
http://dev.omapzoom.org/?p=bootloader/u-boot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/o
map4_dev

Will send you binaries in another email.

Regards

Santosh