Dear All, I'm trying with buildroot to build the linux-4.4.3 for an iomega 150d machine mounting the mpc8347E sys. Due the old U-Boot version is not possible to use the standard uImage, but it is needed to set the cuImage target (the one embedding the device tree). I start using the default configuration arch/powerpc/configs/mpc83xx_defconfig, and the default device tree mpc834x_mds. In order to enable the console output during the first linux boot stage I added the following line at the end of the device tree file: chosen { linux,stdout-path = "/soc8349/ <http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot> serial at 4500"; }; The kernel is compiled and I get the cuImage.mpc834x_mds image. Then I load it on the machine and execute: tftp 0x10000000 cuImage.mpc834x_mds Speed: 1000, full duplex Using Freescale TSEC0 device TFTP from server 192.168.178.36; our IP address is 192.168.178.10 Filename 'cuImage.mpc834x_mds'. Load address: 0x10000000 Loading: ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################ done Bytes transferred = 2157489 (20ebb1 hex) IOMEGA=> bootm 0x10000000 ## Booting image at 10000000 ... Image Name: Linux-4.4.3 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 2157425 Bytes = 2.1 MB Load Address: 00500000 Entry Point: 005001f8 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK Memory <- <0x0 0x20000000> (512MB) ethernet0: local-mac-address <- 00:d0:b8:01:d1:9f ethernet1: local-mac-address <- 9b:e3:00:01:72:6f CPU clock-frequency <- 0x179a7b00 (396MHz) CPU timebase-frequency <- 0x3ef1480 (66MHz) CPU bus-frequency <- 0xfbc5200 (264MHz) zImage starting: loaded at 0x00500000 (sp: 0x1ffb2ce8) Allocating 0x439a88 bytes for kernel ... gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0050e000:0x00940fe8)...done 0x422920 bytes Linux/PowerPC load: root=/dev/mtdblock1 ro rootfstype=cramfs devfs=mount console=ttyS0,115200 init=/linuxrc Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x94d120 But at this point the process crash and the system is reset. It should be something near the handover between the first kenel boot stage and the vmlinux start, but I do not have a jtag to proceed the investigation. In any case it seems that the execution never entry the vmlinux start (head_32.S). I try to add this macro at the begin of the file: .equ cnsladdr, 0xe0004500 (console address txreg) .macro dbg_prnt nid lis r24, <http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot> cnsladdr at ha addi r24, r24, <http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot> cnsladdr at l li r25, 'd' stb r25, 0(r24) li r25, 'b' stb r25, 0(r24) li r25, 'g' stb r25, 0(r24) li r25, '0' addi r25, r25, \nid stb r25, 0(r24) li r25, '\n' stb r25, 0(r24) .endm But I do not see anything in the console. The problem seems releted to the vmlinux call in arc/powerpc/boot/main.c kentry = (kernel_entry_t) vmlinux.addr; Any suggestion? Bye.
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