KEXEC on ARM cortex-a15
Naresh Bhat
nareshgbhat at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 13:47:21 EST 2012
Hi,
Can somebody suggest me which JTAG I should purchase for V2P-CA15_A7
Cortex A15 target ?
I would be great if you provide me a web link. I will appreciate your help.
Thanks and Regards
-Naresh Bhat
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:21:21AM +0000, Naresh Bhat wrote:
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> I have disabled the SMP on host kernel. But still I am facing the
>> issue as below
>>
>> bash-4.2# ls
>> uImage vexpress.dtb
>> bash-4.2#
>> bash-4.2# kexec -f uImage --dtb=vexpress.dtb --command-line="console=ttyS0"
>
> Can you try using a zImage instead and also specifying the console as
> ttyAMA0, as it looks like you're using a vexpress?
>
>> Starting new kernel
>> Bye!
>> Uncompressing Linux...
>
> This isn't really very helpful -- some more debugging on your part would be
> appreciated to get an insight as to what's going wrong. You could either use
> JTAG or put some early prints in the decompressor to work out where it goes
> awry.
>
> Useful things to know would be: the state of the CPU when the new kernel
> image is entered (if you have JTAG, you could also look at the dtb in memory
> to see that it looks sane) and also at which point in the decompressor it
> goes wrong / takes an abort (usually it's when we enable the MMU).
>
> Will
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-Naresh Bhat
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