Hi Hemant,

   No I have not added the earlyprintk. I will investigate this. Shall I add
earlyprintk=serial,uart0 ?

  BTW, I tried to trace down the printk code flow in kernel/printk.c.
  (1) in the function _call_console_drivers(), __call_console_drivers()
never gets called [the if() condition is never met].
  (2) May be it probably explains why nothing gets printed on serial? Is
this because there is no earlyprintk in bootargs?

Regards,
kunal




On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Pedanekar, Hemant <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Just to check: have you added "earlyprintk" to your bootargs?
>
> -
> Hemant
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* kunal singh [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:40 PM
> *To:* Raffaele Recalcati; Nori, Sekhar; Pedanekar, Hemant
>
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: problem with serial console
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>  Thanks a lot for posting the comments here.
>
>  (1) I have added some printascii() statements in function
> init/main.c/start_kernel() to trace the boot sequence
>      (a) printascii() to print the command line arguments
>      (b) printascii() before doing the console_init()
>      (c) printascii() after doing the console_init()
>
>  (2)  The log (posted below) suggests that the boot sequence goes beyond
> console_init(). Since console_init is done I would expect that all my printk
> messages should start to appear on the console . But it does not.  (however
> the printascii still works, as you can see messages in the bootlog, hence I
> would assume that hardware is fine)
>
>    I would appreciate if you can give some suggestion on how to debug this
> issue further.
>
> Thanks,
> kunal
>
>
> /************* HERE IS THE BOOT LOG ****************************/
> run devboot
> TFTP from server 10.0.0.1; our IP address is 10.0.0.3
> Filename '/home/kunal/xcaster/ingenient-bsp/images/uImage'.
> Load address: 0x82000000
> Loading: #T
> ################################################################
>          #################################################################
>          #################T
> ################################################
>          ##################################################################
>          ###################T ##########T
> ####################################
>          ##########################################T ####
> done
> Bytes transferred = 1898780 (1cf91c hex)
> ## Booting image at 82000000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.32-rc2-davinci1
>    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>    Data Size:    1898716 Bytes =  1.8 MB
>    Load Address: 80008000
>    Entry Point:  80008000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> OK
>
> Starting kernel ...
>
> Uncompressing
> Linux...........................................................................................................................
> done, booting the kernel.
>
> console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/nfs rw 
> nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/home/kunal/xcaster/ingenient-bsp/rootfs/fs,udp,v3,rsize=4096,wsize=1400
> ip=10.0.0.3:10.0.0.1:10.0.0.1:255.255.255.0:XCASTER5000::off mem=128M
> mtdparts=davinci-nand.0:96k(ubl),736k(uboot),64k(uboot-env),2m(kernel),61568k(app)
> eth=80:4C:EF:54:87:0A
> doing console init now
> finished console init
>
> /***************************************************************/
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Raffaele Recalcati <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:35 PM, kunal singh <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Raffaele,
>> >
>> >   Thanks for the suggestion.
>> >
>> >  (1)  Console is fine. I am able to communicate with the u-boot
>> (115200,n8).
>> > Also if I use printascii (a kernel function) I am able to output on
>> console.
>> >  (2) There is no message, after the kernel decompression (because
>> console is
>> > not up). Here is what I see.
>> >
>> > Load address: 0x82000000
>> > Loading: ####T ###################T
>> > ##########################################
>> >
>> ##################################################################
>> >          ######################T
>> > ############################################
>> >
>> #################################################################
>> >          ###################T
>> > ##############################################T ##
>> >          ######T ########################################
>> > done
>> > Bytes transferred = 1898828 (1cf94c hex)
>> > ## Booting image at 82000000 ...
>> >    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.32-rc2-davinci1
>> >    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>> >    Data Size:    1898764 Bytes =  1.8 MB
>> >    Load Address: 80008000
>> >    Entry Point:  80008000
>> >    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>> > OK
>> >
>> > Starting kernel ...
>> >
>> > Uncompressing
>> >
>> Linux...........................................................................................................................
>> > done, booting the kernel.
>> >
>> > /* AND THEN NOTHING BECAUSE CONSOLE IS NOT FUNCTIONAL, but booting goes
>> on
>> > */
>>
>> How can you say that boot goes on?
>> Can you check mem inside bootargs?
>> For instance I have 128MB RAM and I use these bootargs.
>>
>> set bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw
>> ip=10.39.10.183:10.39.10.169:10.39.8.1:255.255.248.0:::off
>> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.39.10.169:/home/NFS/ARAGO_DEMO_IMAGE-raf/
>> mem=128M video=davincifb:output=lcd:format=rgb:vid0=240x...@0
>> ,0:vid1=240x...@0,0:osd0=240x...@0,0:osd1=240x...@0,0
>> '
>>
>> Don't copy my bootargs, only do some tests.
>> I saw your behaviour when mem was wrong.
>>
>
>
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