From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FBA4DDEF3 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 23:23:19 +1000 (EST) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id z59so1496813pyg.27 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Kilauea: kernel hangs when using ARCH=powerpc From: Josh Boyer To: bernhard.weirich@riedel.net In-Reply-To: <1207562631.6678.10.camel@hactar> References: <1207562631.6678.10.camel@hactar> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:23:13 -0500 Message-Id: <1207574594.6809.23.camel@vader.jdub.homelinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: Josh Boyer Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Reply-To: jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:03 +0200, Bernhard Weirich wrote: > Hello! > > When I build the kernel for my kilauea board using ARCH=ppc everything > works fine. > Since ppc is deprecated I'd like to switch to powerpc, but if I do so > the kernel does not produce any output. > There is just the last line of the prompt from the bootloader. > In both cases I built with kilauea_defconfig > > I tried the Denx ELDK (4.2) compiler 4.2.2, the toolchain generated by > Buildroot and different kernel versions from the denx repository. > The Kilauea board is Version 1.11b. > > Any ideas what is going wrong? You need to be sure to load the device tree blob in U-Boot, and ensure that your bootargs environment variable contains the proper values for console. josh