Hi all, While booting MVL linux on MPC8560 based board the kernel goes into a infinite loop in setup.c. The uncompressed image is located at 0x00000000 and is booted from 0x00000000
arch/ppc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S ------------------------------------ bl early_init arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c ---------------------------------------- unsigned long early_init(int r3, int r4, int r5) { unsigned long phys; unsigned long offset = reloc_offset(); /* Default */ phys = offset + KERNELBASE; /* First zero the BSS -- use memset, some arches don't have * caches on yet */ memset_io(PTRRELOC(&__bss_start), 0, _end - __bss_start); __bss_start is 0xc039b00 and __bss_stop = _end =c03c7d90 _end Please anyone give me some pointers to understand this i.e use of PTRRELOC and REASON BEHIND clearing area from __bss_start to _end - __bss_start even though lot of symbols and functions are defined here(as per System.map) System.map --------------------- c039b000 A __bss_start c039b000 A __chrp_begin c039b000 A __chrp_end c039b000 A __init_end c039b000 A __openfirmware_begin c039b000 A __openfirmware_end c039b000 A __pmac_begin c039b000 A __pmac_end c039b000 A __prep_begin c039b000 A __prep_end c039b000 B system_state c039b004 B late_time_init c039b008 b execute_command c039b00c b panic_later c039b010 b panic_param c039b014 B Version_132618 ..... ..... c03c4458 B ic_nameservers c03c4464 B unix_socket_table c03c4464 B unix_table_lock c03c4868 b auth_domain_table c03c4868 b authtab_lock c03c4868 b packet_sklist_lock c03c4868 b rpc_credcache_lock c03c4868 b rpc_queue_lock c03c4868 b rpc_sched_lock c03c4968 b ip_table c03c4d68 b pmap_lock c03c4d68 b pmap_stats c03c4d90 b cache_defer_hash c03c4d90 b cache_defer_lock c03c4d90 b cache_list_lock c03c4d90 b queue_lock c03c5d90 b write_buf c03c7d90 A __bss_stop c03c7d90 A _end Thanks, Deepak Gaur _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded