Linkstation Mini and __machine_arch_type problem, not booting since 3.8

[Jason Cooper]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:33:13AM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> On 19/06/2015 03:50, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> > Hi Gr??gory, Andrew and Arnd,
> > 
> > Le jeudi 18 juin 2015 ?? 10:12 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT a ??crit :
> >> On 15/06/2015 15:51, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> >>> Also, my intent at first was to try converting this machine to DT, so 
> >>> maybe
> >>> the solution to my problem would simply be to try converting it and see
> >>> if it fixes the problem?
> >>
> >> Indeed it is your best option given the problem you exposed later in this
> >> thread. Our plan in mid-term is to completely remove the non-DT support.
> >> So converting the board is definitely the right thing to do.
> >>
> >> The conversation should not be too hard to achieve, you will have mainly to
> >> write a dts, build a dtb an append it to your kernel.
> >> You can have a look on waht was done for the LaCie d2 Network platform, see
> >> 94b0bd366e36379c994bdaa84f 'ARM: orion5x: convert d2net to Device Tree'
> > 
> > OK, I tried following you advice, and copied step by step the dts with
> > values corresponding to my board.
> > 
> >> If you have any trouble or question during the conversion we will 
> >> help you.
> > 
> > It took several iterations to get done, but attached is the dts I
> > wrote. Still, it doesn't boot and I get no message after the
> > decompressor message. But I get something: the leds change according to
> > the configuration of the dts, so something is going on (I noticed the
> > change after several failed boot where no led changed and fixing a typo
> > made it).
> > 
> > My main problem is getting some debug messages: no amount of "debug"
> > and "loglevel" on the command line seems to change anything. Is it too
> > early in the boot process to get anything output or am I doing
> > something wrong? (I activated some configs for debugging, but I may
> > have missed the good one)
> 
> Try to activate earlyprintk. For this you have to select CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
> which depend on DEBUG_LL. You will also have to add the argument
> "earlyprintk" to your kernel parameters.

SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM?

thx,

Jason.