I recommend you use a later branch, kvm-15-v10 for example. The -stage branches are unflattened patches applied on top of each other and merged with other changes, the other ones are folded down patches, rebased on newer upstream kernels. -Christoffer On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:17 AM, shi roger <rogershijicheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have checkout the kvm-a15-v8 branch (don't know what's the difference > between kvm-a15-v8-stage branch). After recompiling the kernel, I find it > still failed to produce any output. > > Later, I retried the model debugger to figure out what's wrong inside. The > problem seems to occur when loading fdt. What kind of mistake may lead to > this error? > > -- > Best Regards, > Jicheng Shi > > > > > On 2012-9-7, at 下午3:50, Alexander Spyridakis > <a.spyridakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 7 September 2012 10:35, shi roger <rogershijicheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I have disable "append device tree config option", but nothing happened >> either. I guess my host NF S is not configured well, so is there any other >> way to boot the host without NFS? If the kernel cannot load the file system, >> will it still print out some error message to serial port? > > > earlyprintk should output some text even without successfully loading a file > system. Not getting any output at all means that there is a problem far too > early. You could eventually use model debugger to get a better idea on where > the problem is (bootwrapper or kernel). > > Also the provided "host_config" was meant for kvm-a15-v8 branch if I am not > mistaken. Use that kernel configuration as is for the v8 branch, no need to > reconfigure with "make vexpress_defconfig". > > _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/kvmarm