[PATCH 2/6] ARM: OMAP2+: Remove board-omap4panda.c

Sricharan R r.sricharan at ti.com
Thu Jun 13 06:12:23 EDT 2013


On Thursday 13 June 2013 02:51 PM, Sricharan R wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> On Wednesday 12 June 2013 10:44 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [130612 09:37]:
>>> * Ming Lei <tom.leiming at gmail.com> [130603 08:34]:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
>>>>> We can now boot with device tree. If you don't want to update u-boot,
>>>>> you can boot with appended DTB with the following instructions:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Make sure you have the appended DTB support in .config
>>>>>
>>>>>    CONFIG_ARM_APPENDED_DTB=y
>>>>>    CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT=y
>>>>>    CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT_CMDLINE_EXTEND=y
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Build the zImage
>>>>>
>>>>>    $ ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=... make zImage
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Build the device tree blobs
>>>>>
>>>>>    $ ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=... make dtbs
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Append the correct panda dtb to zImage
>>>>>
>>>>>    Depending on your hardware it's omap4-panda.dtb, omap4-panda-a4.dtb
>>>>>    or omap4-panda-es.dtb.
>>>>>
>>>>>    $ cat arch/arm/boot/zImage arch/arm/boot/dts/omap4-panda-es.dtb > /tmp/appended
>>>>>
>>>>> 5. Use mkimage to produce the appended device tree uImage
>>>>>
>>>>>    $ mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 \
>>>>>      -n "Linux" -d /tmp/appended /tmp/uImage
>>>> I followed the above steps and tried devicetree on Pandaboard against
>>>> 3.10.0-rc3-next-20130528, and the board will hang during boot, but works
>>>> well with legacy mode.
>>>>
>>>>          Hardware: Pandaboard A1
>>>>          dtb: omap4-panda.dtb
>>>>
>>>> See 'dmesg' on below link:
>>>>
>>>>          http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ming/up/panda-dts.dmesg
>>>>
>>> Hmm looks like it boots to init. Maybe add initcall_debug to the cmdline in
>>> case there's some late_initcall that causes the issue. It's probably some
>>> trivial issue causing it.
>> Sricharan, maybe give this a quick try if you have the original pandaboard?
>> I only have pandaboard es.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tony 
>  
> I tried your cleanup branch omap-for-v3.11/cleanup on panda board and it booted
>  to prompt fine.
>             Hardware: Pandaboard A1   dtb: omap4-panda.dtb
>
>   git pull on linux-next branch was not working though.
>
    Ok, tested in linux-next as well and it booted fine with DTB.
     HW: OMAP4430ES2.1 PANDA A1 version DTB: OMAP4-PANDA.DTB
  
    Booted with ramdisk and mmc FS

commit c04efed734409f5a44715b54a6ca1b54b0ccf215
Author: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>
Date:   Fri Jun 7 16:40:02 2013 +1000

    Add linux-next specific files for 20130607
   

Regards,
 Sricharan



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