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

Sricharan R r.sricharan at ti.com
Thu Jun 13 05:21:34 EDT 2013


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.


Regards,
 Sricharan




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