[ARMedslack] Cant get -current 3.1.5 to boot

[Robby Workman]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:08:13 -0600
Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:29:24 -0500
> John O'Donnell <unixjohn1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I upgraded from 3.1.2 to the 3.1.5 packages yesterday. Before
> > attempting to compile the guruplug UAP drivers I tried to boot and
> > had no luck.  Hung at:
> > 
> > 
> > -- ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
> >     Image Name:   Linux-3.1.5-kirkwood
> >     Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> >     Data Size:    2090424 Bytes = 2 MiB
> >     Load Address: 00008000
> >     Entry Point:  00008000
> >     Verifying Checksum ... OK
> > ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
> >     Image Name:   Slackware ARM Initial RAM disk f
> >     Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
> >     Data Size:    5811263 Bytes = 5.5 MiB
> >     Load Address: 00000000
> >     Entry Point:  00000000
> >     Verifying Checksum ... OK
> >     Loading Kernel Image ... OK
> > OK
> > 
> > Starting kernel ...
> > 
> > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> > 
> > 
> > I compiled up the modules and my own uImage with the .config that
> > comes with the armedslack kernel source and the same thing happens.
> > 
> > I set it back to 3.1.2 and it boots fine.
> 
> 
> Oh bah, something definitely changed somewhere along the line :/
> 
> For a new project here, I need a newer kernel than the one in 13.37,
> so I decided to use the 3.2.2 kernel from -current.  I get the same
> problem here (albeit under slightly different circumstances).
> 
> Mine is installed to the NAND, and rootfs is on the mtd, so I don't
> need an initrd at all; thus, my env settings are this:
> 
> Marvell>> printenv
> arcNumber=2659
> baudrate=115200
> bootargs_console=console=ttyS0,115200
> bootargs_root=ubi.mtd=2 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs rootfs=ubifs
> bootcmd=setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console) $(bootargs_root); run
> bootcmd_nand; run bootcmd_slack bootcmd_nand=nand read 0x800000
> 0x100000 0x400000 bootcmd_slack=bootm 0x800000
> bootdelay=3
> eth1addr=02:50:43:eb:75:43
> ethact=egiga0
> ethaddr=00:50:43:01:5D:EA
> fileaddr=800000
> filesize=36D00
> ipaddr=192.168.13.1
> mainlineLinux=yes
> nand_erasesize=20000
> nand_oobsize=40
> nand_writesize=800
> serverip=192.168.13.11
> stderr=serial
> stdin=serial
> stdout=serial
> 
> 
> When I boot, here's what happens:
> 
> U-Boot 2011.06 (Jul 26 2011 - 12:26:42)
> Marvell-GuruPlug
> 
> SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
> DRAM:  512 MiB
> NAND:  512 MiB
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   egiga0, egiga1
> 88E1121 Initialized on egiga0
> 88E1121 Initialized on egiga1
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
> 
> NAND read: device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x400000
>  4194304 bytes read: OK
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-3.2.2-kirkwood
>    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>    Data Size:    2082616 Bytes = 2 MiB
>    Load Address: 00008000
>    Entry Point:  00008000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>    Loading Kernel Image ... OK
> OK
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> 
> ...  nothing ...
> 
> 
> I can boot the 13.37 kernel and such just fine still, but I don't
> have any of the old 3.1.x kernels from -current.  I guess I'll have
> to compile my own, because I *really* need something newer than 
> 2.6.38 :/


And just found this:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg986288.html
  http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-February/117020.html

So I went here:

  http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.html

and grabbed this:

  http://people.debian.org/~tbm/u-boot/2011.12-2/guruplug/u-boot.kwb

Even so, this still hangs:

U-Boot 2011.12 (Jan 08 2012 - 21:46:50)
Marvell-GuruPlug

SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
DRAM:  512 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
NAND:  512 MiB
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   egiga0, egiga1
88E1121 Initialized on egiga0
88E1121 Initialized on egiga1
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x400000
 4194304 bytes read: OK
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux-3.2.2-kirkwood
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    2082616 Bytes = 2 MiB
   Load Address: 00008000
   Entry Point:  00008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

... bah ...