2.6.38 port not booting on i.MX53 SoM

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:38:00AM +0000, Wayne Tams wrote:
> I have a feeling that this might be a very common question and with
> multiple answers, but I am running out of options, so here it goes.
> 
> I have been working with i.MX53 SoM with a 2.6.35 BSP, I am trying to
> dump the SoMs BSP in  favour for Freescale's latest kernel 2.6.38
> (http://opensource.freescale.com/git?p=imx/linux-2.6-imx.git;a=summary).
Better use mainline, that's way less ugly. (And note that the Freescale
kernel is out of scope for this mailing list.)
 
> Using the 2.6.35 kernel as reference I have been trying to configure
> the 2.6.38 kernel to match as well as modifying and adding board and
> platform information.
> 
> The kernel compiles fine but when I come to load the image the kernel
> gets stuck at "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel."
> 
> Are there any obvious causes for this freeze?
An exception before console output is setup, or a wrong setup.

Enable DEBUG_LL, EARLY_PRINTK and add "earlyprintk" to the commandline.

Best regards
Uwe

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