Converting kirkwood-goflexnet to DTS

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jun 15 08:53:41 EDT 2012


Josh,

Le Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:40:48 -0400,
Josh Coombs <josh.coombs at gmail.com> a écrit :

> You were both correct.  After one additional test failure last night
> and a lot more reading I reached the same conclusion, I was foolishly
> thinking .dtbs would be automatically appended to the kernel when
> configured to support that method of including them.

Yeah, but the DTB append feature is only a development/debugging
feature provided to allow DT-related development with non-DT capable
bootloaders. However, my understanding is that it is assumed that
people should ultimately use DT-capable bootloaders.

> That resulted in: http://pastie.org/4092019
> 
> Boots, with some serious errors, doesn't seem to mount a FS and stops.
>  Reducing my kernel arguments down to "console=ttyS0,115200
> earlyprintk rootfs=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=10" I see the same errors, but
> I also show the key hardware involved being detected, and the nand
> partitioning looks correct.  My status LED goes solid green, so it
> appears something is working right.  I'll dig into goflexnet_init next
> to try and determine what is wrong in there.

Haven't looked at the details, but aren't certain devices registered
multiple times?

Thomas
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