Re: 2.6.30 jiffies problem

[Roger Quadros <ext-roger.quadros@nokia.com>]

ext Raju Sana wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have pulled kernel from linux-omap git's 2.6.30 branch (
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=omap-2.6.30
> ) and trying to boot on my OMAP3 beagle board (Rev. B4). It got stuck
> at Calibrating delay loop.....
> 
>>From the below log I found that the jiffies value is not getting
> incremented and couldn't able to come out of the loop
> 
> I found that the OMAP_TICK_GPTIMER which is responsible for the system
> tick from the arch/arm/plat-omap/Kconfig is missing in 2.6.30. Can you
> guys put some light on what is going wrong ?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Venkat Raju.
> 
> 

Hi Raju,

Use a newer compiler. e.g. 2009q1

cheers,
-roger

> Boot Log:-
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> Uncompressing Linux...............................................................................................................
> done, booting the kernel.
> <5>Linux version 2.6.30-omap1-06025-g9474788
> (root@ws124.idc.embinux.org) (gcc version 4.2.1 (CodeSourcery Sourcery
> G++ Lite 2007q3-51)) #5 Thu Jul 2 10:22:30 IST 2009
> CPU: ARMv7 Processor [411fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387f
> CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
> Machine: OMAP3 Beagle Board
> Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
> <7>On node 0 totalpages: 32768
> <7>free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c03677e0, node_mem_map c0383000
> <7>  Normal zone: 256 pages used for memmap
> <7>  Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
> <7>  Normal zone: 32512 pages, LIFO batch:7
> <6>OMAP3430 ES2.1
> <6>SRAM: Mapped pa 0x40200000 to va 0xd7000000 size: 0x100000
> Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32512
> <5>Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 noinitrd
> root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 video=omapfb.mode=dvi:1280x720MR-24@50 init=/init
> rootfstype=ext3 rw rootdelay=1 nohz=off androidboo2
> <3>Unknown boot option `androidboot.console=ttyS2': ignoring
> <6>NR_IRQS:368
> <6>Clocking rate (Crystal/DPLL/ARM core): 26.0/332/500 MHz
> <6>Reprogramming SDRC clock to 332000000 Hz
> <6>GPMC revision 5.0
> <6>IRQ: Found an INTC at 0xd8200000 (revision 4.0) with 96 interrupts
> <6>Total of 96 interrupts on 1 active controller
> <6>OMAP34xx GPIO hardware version 2.5
> PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
> <6>OMAP clockevent source: GPTIMER12 at 32768 Hz
> Console: colour dummy device 80x30
> <6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> <6>Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> <6>Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
> <5>Memory: 126192KB available (3056K code, 284K data, 112K init, 0K highmem)
> <6>Calibrating delay loop...
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