Actually, we figured out what was going on. Apparently we left one of the interrupt lines disconnected from the CPU in the FPGA design. Thanks for all the help guys, I really do appreciate it.
Clint Thomas ________________________________ From: Clint Thomas Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 6:58 PM To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Cc: 'Peter Ryser '; Jason Lamb Subject: RE: PPC405 system slow boot The xparameters.h file is generated by the Xilinx EDK for our FPGA, so I don't see how there could be a mismatch. Using Chipscope, we were able to find that the interrupt controller is triggered on kernel initialization, but after the kernel has finished loading, the system moves to a snail's pace at login. Does Linux use a different set of code to handle the UART, INTC, etc. after the kernel is loaded? The system appears to work perfectly up until after the kernel is done loading. ________________________________ From: Peter Ryser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:45 PM To: Clint Thomas Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: Re: PPC405 system slow boot Clint, check the interrupt sub-system of your design. What you describe typically happens when the PPC does not get any interrupts from the UART. It's most likely a mismatch between your hardware and the xparameters.h. - Peter Clint Thomas wrote: Hey guys, I've run through the loops to try and figure what could be wrong with this system. The board in question is modeled after the Xilinx ML300 board. It uses a Xilinx System ACE chip to load a FPGA / Kernel image from compact flash. Originally, I was trying to use the CompactFlash as the root file system, but because of issues in either the design or software, this would only work if SysAce was in polled I/O mode. To circumvent this, I built my root filesystem into an initrd image and built a single ELF file with the Kernel and RFS, then strapped that to the FPGA bit file to make a single FPGA/Kernel/RFS SysAce file. Upon decompression, the Linux kernel boots quickly and loads all of the device drivers. However when it gets to the prompt, it starts slowing down. Output and input to and from the board becomes very very slow (it displays 2 characters roughly every 20 seconds). Originally I believed this to be the CPU still polling SystemAce, so I disabled the Linux System ACE drivers to remove that as a possibility, however after doing this, the problem still persists, even with the RFS in ram! Has anybody encountered a similar situation to this before, with possible insight towards a solution? Thank you for your time. Clinton Thomas cthomas at soneticom.com ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20060906/fe6b3386/attachment.htm
