>> I haven't tried CONFIG_BLK_DEV or CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP and am still >> playing around with the values for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT and >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE. Strangely, the DEV_RAM defines are completely >> missing from my config so I have to put them in manually... (as >> opposed to via menuconfig). I'll post back when it's working or when >> I've tried all of this and still am getting some error. > > If you don't have CONFIG_BLK_DEV defined, you can't have > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT > or CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE. Use 'menuconfig' to help straighten this out. > >> Meanwhile a side question - why does BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT default to 16? > > This is just the number of unique RAM disk devices supported.
I see, thanks Gary, I'll leave that unmodified then. I only really need 1 but it doesn't seem to negatively affect anything if I leave it at 16. Just as an intermediate update on the issue, I've made progress and it hangs later down the line, see below: ************************************************************************************ Using Embedded Planet EP88xC machine description Linux version 2.6.30-rc2-01402-gd4e2f68-dirty (dev...@localhost.localdomain) (gc c version 4.2.2) #3 Thu Jul 2 11:00:54 CDT 2009 Found initrd at 0xc3dbb000:0xc3f6d056 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000 Normal 0x00004000 -> 0x00004000 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00004000 MMU: Allocated 72 bytes of context maps for 16 contexts Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256 Kernel command line: console=ttyCPM0,9600n8 root=/dev/ram loglevel=7 init=/sbin/ init NR_IRQS:512 PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes) Decrementer Frequency = 0x5f5e10 clocksource: timebase mult[28000000] shift[22] registered console [ttyCPM0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Memory: 60716k/65536k available (2136k kernel code, 4752k reserved, 100k data, 9 9k bss, 112k init) SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=16, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 Calibrating delay loop... 12.39 BogoMIPS (lpj=61952) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 net_namespace: 296 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 checking if image is initramfs... rootfs image is not initramfs (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 1736k freed msgmni has been set to 122 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered (default) Generic RTC Driver v1.07 f0000a80.serial: ttyCPM0 at MMIO 0xc500ea80 (irq = 19) is a CPM UART f0000a20.serial: ttyCPM1 at MMIO 0xc5016a20 (irq = 29) is a CPM UART brd: module loaded loop: module loaded eth0: fs_enet: 00:00:00:00:00:00 eth1: fs_enet: 00:00:00:00:00:00 FEC MII Bus: probed fe000000.flash: Found 2 x16 devices at 0x0 in 32-bit bank Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040 fe000000.flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top. number of CFI chips: 1 cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness. TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 17 RPC: Registered udp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp transport module. RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 1:0. Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k init ************************************************************************************ Now searching for cause, looks like it's "init" related... _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev