[U-Boot-Users] Linux - problems with the RTC?

My-Hong Vuong
2003-01-07T03:55:44Z

Hi,

Hope you all had a great Xmas and New Years! :)

I managed to get linux to visibly start executing through smc1 - it
turns out that I had chosen the standard generic serial support option,
when it was in fact, non-standard... oops!

A new year, new problem... i'm afraid :( Here's a short listing of
what I see at bootup :

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## Booting image at 01000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.4.19-pre7
Created: 2003-01-07 1:50:16 UTC
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 595622 Bytes = 581.7 kB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Linux version 2.4.19-pre7 (myhong at nemo) (gcc version 3.0.4) #46 Tue Jan
7 12:49:52 EST 2003
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
zone(0): 8192 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1
Decrementer Frequency = 78750000/60

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NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k init
init started: BusyBox v0.60.3 (2002.07.16-02:05+0000) multi-call
binaryStarted device management daemon for /dev
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
VFS: busy inodes on changed media..
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
eth0: config: auto-negotiation on, 100FDX, 100HDX, 10FDX, 10HDX.
eth0: status: link up, 10 Mbps Half Duplex, auto-negotiation
complete.
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At this point, linux hangs. Now, I'm not too familiar with what is
supposed to happen next - but according to the output that i had on the
fads860 board (i'm currenlty working on a custom design, mpc860T board),
I am supposed to get something like:

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Tue Jan 7 11:23:43 2003
VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
mount: Mounting /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt/idedisk
failed: No such file or directory
Caught SIGHUP

Please press Enter to activate this console.
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
VFS: busy inodes on changed media..
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1

BusyBox v0.60.3 (2002.07.16-02:05+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

root:/#
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I can ping and telnet my target (sometimes) and i can get something
like the above - however, i have to login and exit telnet to type
anything at the prompt.

Now, each time I do a "date" , I get the exact same response - i.e., my
RTC seems to have halted. I don't get it... I can do "date" in PPCBoot
and my seconds change. I put in some register dumps and I get:

TBSCR: 0x00000103
RTCSC: 0x00000013
RTC: 0x5fffc058
PISCR: 0x00000004
SCCR: 0x03800000

how do i get my clock to tick??

Thanks in advance,
My Hong Vuong