Linux boot problem, pc does not point to virtual memory

Linux boot problem, pc does not point to virtual memory

[FISCHER Thierry]

Hi,
   
I am having some problem booting linux on Powerpc 405 (xilinx virtex4).

I have the following output on the terminal:
******************************************************
zImage starting: loaded at 0x00400000 (sp: 0x0070feb0)
Allocating 0x38a79c bytes for kernel ...
gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0040d000:0x0059ee42)...done 0x367f58 bytes
Attached initrd image at 0x0059f000-0x0070ef20
initrd head: 0x1f8b0808
 
Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyUL0 root=/dev/ram
Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x71c300
*******************************************************
 
The strange thing is that when I check the value of pc register, it does 
not return values of the virtual memory but values like:
pc :0x0000ebd4
pc :0x00002148
pc :0x00002194
pc :0x00002150 ...
Instead of values like 0xcXXXXXXX
 
It looks like there is a problem with the MMU or something like that ?
I have seen similar problems on the xilinx forum but it did not helped 
me so much:
http://forums.xilinx.com/xlnx/board/message?board.id=ELINUX&message.id=595&query.id=371581#M595 

http://forums.xilinx.com/xlnx/board/message?board.id=EDK&message.id=6235&query.id=367949#M6235 

 
If anyone has experienced similar problem please let me know.
Any suggestion is welcomed.
 
Thanks,

Re: Linux boot problem, pc does not point to virtual memory

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 15:20 +0900, FISCHER Thierry wrote:
> Hi,
>    
> I am having some problem booting linux on Powerpc 405 (xilinx virtex4).
> 
> I have the following output on the terminal:
> ******************************************************
> zImage starting: loaded at 0x00400000 (sp: 0x0070feb0)
> Allocating 0x38a79c bytes for kernel ...
> gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0040d000:0x0059ee42)...done 0x367f58 bytes
> Attached initrd image at 0x0059f000-0x0070ef20
> initrd head: 0x1f8b0808
>  
> Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyUL0 root=/dev/ram
> Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x71c300
> *******************************************************
>  
> The strange thing is that when I check the value of pc register, it does 
> not return values of the virtual memory but values like:
> pc :0x0000ebd4
> pc :0x00002148
> pc :0x00002194
> pc :0x00002150 ...
> Instead of values like 0xcXXXXXXX

If it's a 405 it has a real mode (for example when it takes an
exception) so it may just be running in real mode when you sample it.

Cheers
Ben.

> It looks like there is a problem with the MMU or something like that ?
> I have seen similar problems on the xilinx forum but it did not helped 
> me so much:
> http://forums.xilinx.com/xlnx/board/message?board.id=ELINUX&message.id=595&query.id=371581#M595 
> 
> http://forums.xilinx.com/xlnx/board/message?board.id=EDK&message.id=6235&query.id=367949#M6235 
> 
> 
> If anyone has experienced similar problem please let me know.
> Any suggestion is welcomed.
>  
> Thanks,
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