Failure to boot...

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Thursday 31 January 2013 07:57 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:50:15PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Thursday 31 January 2013 07:46 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 02:13:20PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:30:01PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>>>> Linus' tip(commit: 04c2eee5) + arm-soc for-next boots fine as well.
>>>>> The pull request from Tony [1] fixed the multi-platform boot issue
>>>>> for OMAP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now trying to merge your for-next and test.
>>>>
>>>> Well, my tip (which is based on Linus' 6abb7c25) also builds and
>>>> boots fine.
>>>>
>>>> Hang on...
>>>>
>>>> # CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP2PLUS is not set
>>>> CONFIG_ARCH_VEXPRESS=y
>>>>
>>>> which of course won't boot, and this happens on both oldconfigs because
>>>> of the change to multiplatform support.
>>>
>>> And no, the instructions given last time around to add:
>>>
>>> # 13 Jan 2013: Update for OMAP moving to multiplatform
>>> CONFIG_ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM=y
>>> CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V7=y
>>>
>>> don't fix it either, it needs more options defined...
>>>
>> Linus' tip + Tony's pull [1] request also makes things work
>> on OMAP.
>
> Thanks to all this multiplatform stuff, the autobuilder has been building
> nothing but Versatile Express kernels for the last 20 days.  That totally
> explains why it won't boot.
>
> The only thing I was told is to add the above two config symbols.  That
> is not the complete story.  There's also other symbols which need adding
> too.  It also looks like Versatile Express support _can't_ be disabled in
> a multiplatform kernel, which is ludicrous.
>
> And... fixing the config finally results in something that boots on the
> SDP4430.
>
Great. Thanks for the confirmation.

Regards,
Santosh