OMAP2430 SDP boot broken after Linus' rmk merge

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jul 24 09:56:17 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:05:17AM +0100, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2013 12:37 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > Hi Rajendra,
> > 
> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tuesday 23 July 2013 01:37 AM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Bear in mind that I'm almost at the point of not boot-testing anything
> >>>> I sent to Linus because of the uselessness of the SDP4430 board now
> >>>> that it's DT only - the only platform which boot-tests anything I send
> >>>> is the 3430LDP board now.  If people care about that, maybe they can
> >>>> assist with sorting out the issues I've raised on these lists about
> >>>> the SDP4430 - and why the SDP4430 build remains disabled in my build
> >>>> and boot system.
> >>>
> >>> I understand completely...
> >>>
> >>>> Looking at the boot log, it just stops after uboot hands over control.
> >>>> With the lack of output from the decompressor, it's not possible to
> >>>> tell whether it's a decompressor problem or a kernel problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think you need to turn on the LL_DEBUG option, select the appropriate
> >>>> output option, and also get the decompressor to use the kernel's debug
> >>>> io functions to output it's stuff (I think the option is DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS).
> >>>
> >>> OK, will dig deeper here at the next opportunity.
> >>
> >> Paul, I can take a look at the 4430sdp issue. Are you also seeing this also on
> >> 2430sdp as the subject says, or was that a typo?
> > 
> > Thanks for the offer.  The issue that I'm seeing is on the 2430SDP in my 
> > testbed.
> > 
> > I don't have a 4430SDP, so you might consider touching base with rmk for 
> > that one.
> 
> So I tried commit 'fb2af00' on the 4430SDP and it did boot fine, though I see
> the below errors. (I am using the mainline bootloaders which do not lock any
> additional DPLLs like USB)

Any update on this? If it's an issue introduced by architectural changes,
I'd really like to bisect it down but I don't have a board.

Will



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