[U-Boot] Trouble "booting using board info"

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Mikhail,

> You're right, I turned on CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT in include/configs/EP88x.h.

Wow, you _are_ quick ;)

> Here's where I'm at now:
>
> U-Boot 2009.03-svn8591 (Jun 25 2009 - 10:18:12)
>
> CPU:   MPC885ZPnn at 100 MHz [40.0...133.0 MHz]
>        8 kB I-Cache 8 kB D-Cache FEC present
> Board: EP88xC 1.1  CPLD revision 2
> DRAM:  64 MB
> FLASH: 32 MB
> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   FEC ETHERNET, FEC2 ETHERNET
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> Wrong Image Format for bootm command
> ERROR: can't get kernel image!
> => setenv ipaddr 10.0.54.150
> => setenv serverip 10.0.54.129
> => setenv bootargs root=/dev/ram0 rw
> => setenv ethaddr 00-e0-86-0c-84-fd
> => tftp 400000 ep88x_uimage2
> Using FEC ETHERNET device
> TFTP from server 10.0.54.129; our IP address is 10.0.54.150
> Filename 'ep88x_uimage2'.
> Load address: 0x400000
> Loading: #################################################################
>          ########
> done
> Bytes transferred = 1061544 (1032a8 hex)
> => tftp 550000 ep88x_ramdisk3
> Using FEC ETHERNET device
> TFTP from server 10.0.54.129; our IP address is 10.0.54.150
> Filename 'ep88x_ramdisk3'.
> Load address: 0x550000
> Loading: #################################################################
>          #############################################################
> done
> Bytes transferred = 1846099 (1c2b53 hex)
> => tftp 750000 ep88x_dtb
> Using FEC ETHERNET device
> TFTP from server 10.0.54.129; our IP address is 10.0.54.150
> Filename 'ep88x_dtb'.
> Load address: 0x750000
> Loading: #
> done
> Bytes transferred = 12288 (3000 hex)
> => bootm 400000 550000 750000
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00400000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.30-rc2-01402-gd4e2f68-
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1061480 Bytes =  1 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 00550000 ...
>    Image Name:   Simple Embedded Linux Framework
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1846035 Bytes =  1.8 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 00750000
>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x750000
>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
>    Loading Ramdisk to 03daa000, end 03f6cb13 ... OK
>
> Now the usual hang, any more suggestions for what to do next?

If you are in the good position to own a JTAG debugger, now would be the
time to place it next to your board :)

If not, then try at least to be sure that "linux,stdout-path" is
sensible in your dts (compare to others).  Another option is to try the
postmortem debugging of the logbuffer described in our docs[1].

As I do not have much 8xx 2.6 exposure I don't know if this is supported
here, but you may try:

arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug:128
 "Kernel hacking"
config PPC_EARLY_DEBUG
        bool "Early debugging (dangerous)"
        # PPC_EARLY_DEBUG on 440 leaves AS=1 mappings above the TLB high water
        # mark, which doesn't work with current 440 KVM.
        depends on !KVM
        help
          Say Y to enable some early debugging facilities that may be available
          for your processor/board combination. Those facilities are hacks
          intended to debug problems early during boot, this should not be
          enabled in a production kernel.
          Note that enabling this will also cause the kernel default log level
          to be pushed to max automatically very early during boot

If this all fails and as you are way past U-Boot, change the mailing
list to linuxppc-dev :)

Cheers
  Detlev

[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxPostMortemAnalysis

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