[U-Boot] u-boot master on a pandaboard won't boot

[Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>]

Hi Christopher,

On Wednesday 02 November 2011 06:33 PM, Lalancette, Christopher wrote:
> Hello,
>       I've recently been playing around with u-boot on a pandaboard Rev A1.  The rest of my environment is an MLO built from x-loader git hash c4289f1bee035dea41536c5ba5e1bc36c7d493c4, and booting an ubuntu 11.04 kernel 2.6.38-1208-omap4.  Up until tag v2011.06, u-boot works flawlessly (as far as I've tested) on this combination.  However, if I take any u-boot release after that, including v2011.09 and u-boot git head, u-boot hangs very early on:
>
> Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.5.1 (Nov  2 2011 - 08:55:25)
> Reading boot sector
> Loading u-boot.bin from mmc
>
> And the status LEDs blink rapidly.
>
> I bisected the problem down to commit bcae72116257201d7288cb8c525a29aea4875b95; prior to that commit, I can successfully[1] boot u-boot on the pandaboard, but after that I cannot.

This commit changes the load address of u-boot and according to the new
relocation scheme u-boot should be loaded at where it is built for.
x-loader is assuming the load address of TI Internal u-boot. You have
two options:

1. Use SPL - when you build mainline u-boot you get an MLO as
by-product. Use it instead of x-loader.
2. Change the u-boot load address in x-loader to 0x80100000
(CFG_LOADADDR in include/configs/omap4430panda.h)

BTW, I am considering unifying the two load addresses.

br,
Aneesh

>
> I'm going to poke at it a bit more, but does anyone have any ideas of what is going on here?
>
> ---
> Chris Lalancette
>
> [1] Well, I can at least get beyond "Loading u-boot.bin from mmc" and boot the kernel and userland.  For some reason with this setup I can't get ethernet to work, but one problem at a time.