2016-03-13 18:20 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>
>
> On 13.03.16 16:17, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>> 2016-03-13 18:11 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13.03.16 16:05, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>>>> 2016-03-13 18:03 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]>:
>>>>> 2016-03-13 16:44 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13.03.16 14:39, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>>>>>>> 2016-03-13 16:21 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 13.03.16 14:13, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 2016-03-13 15:09 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 13.03.16 12:30, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Am 13.03.2016 um 11:56 schrieb Matwey V. Kornilov 
>>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I am trying to boot on Phytec Wega board (TI AM33xx based) with
>>>>>>>>>>>> u-boot+EFI+grub2 and just see
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Booting `openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JeOS-wega [ VMX ]'
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading linux.vmx...
>>>>>>>>>>>> Loading initrd.vmx...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> and then board is rebooted after some time (I think, by watchdog).
>>>>>>>>>>>> I am sure that kernel console parameter is correct.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Before EFI was introduced to u-boot, I had booted this board
>>>>>>>>>>>> successfully. Is there a simple way to somehow understand what is 
>>>>>>>>>>>> going
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrong here?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> My guess is that the device tree doesn't get loaded. Do you see a 
>>>>>>>>>>> warning about it on serial? Try to add a line in grub2 to manually 
>>>>>>>>>>> select the device tree:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>   Press e (edit current entry)
>>>>>>>>>>>   at the end, add a new line saying "devicetree /boot/dtb/foo.dtb"
>>>>>>>>>>>   Press ctrl-x (or f10) to boot
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> If that makes it work, the default U-Boot environment does not set 
>>>>>>>>>>> the "fdtfile" variable. Add it to the env (in your board header) 
>>>>>>>>>>> and you should be set :).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If that still doesn't help, try to add an earlycon parameter to the
>>>>>>>>>> kernel command line. If that still doesn't show you anything at all, 
>>>>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>>>>> can grab the kernel log_buf using md.b from the u-boot command line
>>>>>>>>>> after reset, but let's see whether you get to the kernel log / fix 
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> issue without that first :).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> in System.map I found the following:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> c12bfc30 b __log_buf
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am not sure how to properly map this address when I know that kernel
>>>>>>>>> is loaded at 0x80008000
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That means that the address should be
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   0x812bfc30
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Try to md.b from there after reset and you should spot the kernel 
>>>>>>>> output
>>>>>>>> log.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I attach panic=-1 to kernel, the pause is about 15 seconds
>>>>>>> (instead of 60 earlier), so I think that this parameter is taken into
>>>>>>> account.
>>>>>>> However, in any case the buffer log_buf is filled with zeroes
>>>>>>> according to md.b. Maybe u-boot resets the memory on start?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It usually doesn't. To limit the problem scope, please also make sure
>>>>>> you don't load the initrd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That works, but it ends up with not found init.
>>>>>
>>>>> [    1.700159] devtmpfs: error mounting -2
>>>>> [    1.706736] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1320K (c1034000 - c117e000)
>>>>> [    1.713459] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try
>>>>> passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for
>>>>> guidance.
>>>>> [    1.726667] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
>>>>> 4.5.0-rc7-1.g924f2b7-default #1
>>>>> [    1.734535] Hardware name: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree)
>>>>> [    1.740722] [<c0227b90>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0220c50>]
>>>>> (show_stack+0x20/0x28)
>>>>> [    1.748530] [<c0220c50>] (show_stack) from [<c0586f3c>]
>>>>> (dump_stack+0x98/0xac)
>>>>> [    1.755816] [<c0586f3c>] (dump_stack) from [<c037f440>] 
>>>>> (panic+0xec/0x270)
>>>>> [    1.762745] [<c037f440>] (panic) from [<c0b20a90>]
>>>>> (__irq_alloc_descs+0x0/0x1d8)
>>>>> [    1.770205] Rebooting in 90 seconds..
>>>>>
>>>>> However, md.b 0x812bfc30 shows zeroes. It would be great to learn how
>>>>> to properly use it.
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you load the kernel and fdt to the same addresses that grub put them,
>>>>>> set bootargs to the cmdline in grub and do bootz, does the kernel come 
>>>>>> up?
>>>>>
>>>>> It says the following:
>>>>> http://paste.opensuse.org/32160189
>>>>>
>>>>> But seems, bootz relocates initrd and fdt.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now it is clean, that it is run out of free RAM probably:
>>>>
>>>> [    0.637547] Unpacking initramfs...
>>>> [    3.655300] Initramfs unpacking failed: write error
>>>> [    3.740465] Freeing initrd memory: 46032K (cc251000 - cef45000)
>>>>
>>>> But the question, why output doesn't work with grub.
>>>
>>
>> I found that bootz works when rootfstype=tmpfs (or no rootfstype,
>> because it is default)
>> and when rootfstype=ramfs there is also no any output.
>>
>>> With grub you're using the advanced command line that sets
>>> rootfsflags=size=100%, so it can theoretically occupy too much ram.
>>>
>>> With grub, try and remove all command line arguments except for console=
>>> (like you have it in pastebin). Does that get you to the same boot log?
>>
>> Yes, it seems that rootffstype=ramfs breaks the things!
>
> Well, ramfs is slightly different than rootfsflags=size=100%, but it's
> great to see that we're getting closer.
>
> So how much ram does your device have? Also, can you try
> rootfsflags=size=95% instead to see whether that at least gives us output?
>

Where should It come from? I don't have any rootfsflags in my grub2.
Unfortunately, my board has only 256MB of RAM, so last time I need to
use rootfstype=ramfs to cope with huge initrd and it worked somehow.

>
> Alex



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