Re: Armadillo800EVA legacy defconfig seems busted on my board

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:02:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On my r8a7740 Armadillo board I've been playing with multiplatform and
> > CCF recently. While doing that I noticed that the defconfig doesn't
> > seem to work.
> >
> > Maybe this is just my board - the boot loader seems unstable in
> 
> When starting the kernel, it indeed sometimes hangs after
> 
>         Doing init=/init
> 
> Usually this happens after cold boot, so remote controlled power switches
> don't help here.
> 
> > general and my entire setup requires an additional switch for the
> > Ethernet PHY to even get link up - autonegotiation seems busted with
> > the boot loader...
> 
> Working fine here with both a 100 Mbps or a Gbps switch.
> Gether is supposed to be gigabit, but I only get 100 Mbps.
> Ethtool tells me only 10 or 100 Mbps are available?
> 
> What kind of switch do you need? What doesn't work?
> 
> > Anyway, if I try to boot the zImage generated from
> > armadillo800eva_defconfig I get zero console output. I managed to
> > track it down to the FB bits being busted.
> 
> Strange, armadillo800eva_defconfig is working fine for me on
> renesas-devel-v3.16-20140808, after I added the appropriate nfsroot> kernel command line parameter.

It works for me too.

> 
> > If this is happening on other boards as well then perhaps we shall
> > adjust the defconfig? Or even better - fix the LCDC driver or whatever
> > is keeping the board from booting.