[PATCH 01/52] ARM: introduce atag_offset to replace boot_params

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:

> On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:49 PM, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> > H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys at visionengravers.com> [2011-07-12 16:39:47]:
> >
> >> Could you rebuild your kernel with MACH_EDB9307A also selected in your
> >> config?  After verifying that it still boots please either send me the zImage
> >> or place it somewhere I can grab it and I will make sure it boots on mine.
> >
> > Verified, kernel[1,2] boots. Source tree[3] used to build it (including config etc).
> >
> > 1. http://ynezz.true.cz/redux/zImage 
> > 2. http://ynezz.true.cz/redux/zImage.md5sum 
> > 3. https://github.com/ynezz/linux-2.6/commits/test-redux
> 
> Well... Partial success...
> 
> The kernel does boot, but then panic's when trying to mount the root fs.
> 
> All my development boards are setup to pull the rootfs from a tftp server
> and then use root=/dev/ram as the rootfs.  This kernel must be missing something
> for that to work.
> 
> Regardless, the kernel _does_ boot so the phys offset is correctly being
> worked out at run-time and the memory configuration looks correct so the
> atags offset must be working.
> 
> So, as far as the ep39xx goes, for this patchset you can have either of these:
> 
> Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
> 
> Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>

Thanks a lot for the testing.  This validates the basic concept.


Nicolas