2.6.38 port not booting on i.MX53 SoM

[Wayne Tams]

2011/11/28 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> 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.

I have followed your instructions and double checked serial bootargs
by loading the 2.6.35 kernel; 2.6.35 loads ok displaying printks as it
executes.

However using the new 2.6.38 kernel, there are not any additional
messages after enabling the debug settings you mentioned.
>
> Best regards
> Uwe
>
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