On Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:48:18 UTC+11, Stefan Monnier  wrote:
> Since my Mele A2000 keeps locking up when using the 3.4 kernel (as
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> reported here several months ago), I decided I should try the sunxi-next
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> kernel (my machine can be headless, it just needs USB and SATA support,
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> basically).
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> So I got the sunxi-next branch from Github's linux-sunxi.  Then did
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>    make sunxi_defconfig
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>    LOADADDR=0x40008000 make uImage dtbs
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> (note: this was run under Debian "stable" armhf on my Mele A2000)
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> then copied the files to my SD card.
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> Then at U-Boot's prompt I did:
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>    ext2load mmc 0 0x46000000 uImage
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>    ext2load mmc 0 0x49000000 sun4i-a10-a1000.dtb
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>    env set fdt_high ffffffff
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>    bootm 0x46000000 - 0x49000000
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> Admittedly, there's no initramfs set, but I figured I'll see about that later.
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> Problem is, this doesn't give me much.  I get:
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>    ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 46000000 ...
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>       Image Name:   Linux-3.14.0-rc5-00084-ge8176a3
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>       Created:      2014-03-26  12:57:21 UTC
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>       Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
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>       Data Size:    1784832 Bytes = 1.7 MiB
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>       Load Address: 40008000
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>       Entry Point:  40008000
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>       Verifying Checksum ... OK
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>    ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 49000000
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>       Booting using the fdt blob at 0x49000000
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>       Loading Kernel Image ... OK
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>       Using Device Tree in place at 49000000, end 49006bde
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>    
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>    Starting kernel ...
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> and that's it: no more output after that.
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> I'm using the U-Boot that comes with the "Fedora 19 remix", and my
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> "uEnv.txt" says "console=ttyS0,115200".  With the 3.4 kernel, I usually
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> get output starting with
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>   [    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7), 
> cr=10c5387d
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> any idea what might be going on?  Is there a problem with the build
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> itself so Linux doesn't even get to outputting this first line.  Or is
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> it outputting it somewhere else?  Or did I get unlucky with a transient
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> problem in sunxi-next?
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>         Stefan

I am using gcc-4.8.1. Could it be that I should drop back to 4.7? 
Stefan would you be happy to share your uImage so that I may try it?
Thanks

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